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Let's say you're an ordinary person, just like everyone else.

If you hang out with people who only talk about other people, talk about gossip, talk about grievances and talk about things that are not important for your personal development, you will stay in that position, don't expect life to get better.

If you hang out with people who have ambitions, talk about business potential or profit potential, talk about the future for the better, self improvement, talk about knowledge, talk about technology and investment, slowly your ambitions will be awakened, your knowledge will increase and you will realize that you have to organize your life to be better, because every time you will hear people talking about how to live more advanced.

It could be you today who is stuck in the economy because you hang out with weak, stupid, and failed people, who only talk about things that have no value.

In short, whatever surrounds us and is always with us, we can adopt their customs or culture. It's just like a song you don’t want to hear, but because you hear it every day and your neighbor keeps playing it, you don’t even realize that you’ve already memorized the lyrics.

So to speak, even if you don’t like the song and you’re annoyed by it, you still end up memorizing the lyrics. But if you avoid it or move to a different place, then for sure you won’t be able
to memorize the lyrics. The same goes for what you’re saying. So I get what you mean.

They say you are the average of the people you associate with, so if you only hang out with mediocre people, you will certainly become mediocre. And by mediocre, we mean someone who lives in the average. If your desire is to become great, you must associate with people who have the same purpose. I heard a phrase that makes perfect sense to me: "If you are the smartest person at the table, you are at the wrong table." It's not about arrogance or being the "best," it's about learning, evolving. Sit at tables where you are the least knowledgeable, and you will learn a lot.

Life is too short to be wasted on unimportant engagements. You would have to choose your company carefully because it will determine your mindset. If you roll with people who give excuses for their failure, you will lack problem-solving abilities. It is better to stay alone than to have the wrong company.  

I don't hang around people who will help me get financial freedom. I also hang around those who contribute to my emotional and moral well-being. Some people might not offer financial advice, but they can help you develop a good character. A good character is also helpful in the business world.  

For some reason most people miss a huge confounding variable that great people tend to attract to other great people, and vice versa.

To be honest, just be yourself. Time will tell who is the smart fella and who is the fart smella.

Of course, your environment and people you socialize with plays a major role in your future. I have seen it several time playing out. This is why you need to mingle with people of the same vision with you so that, you can learn more and assist each other to achieve your goals.

Chilling with people that has nothing to offer but gossip and irrelevant things is a set back for you to be on the right track towards success. Socialize with people that you can gain knowledge from

That's actually true, your topic reminds me of the statement that says " if you want to fly with the eagles, you will have to stop swimming with the docks"  this message portray that to fly higher you need to step up. By stopping the current thing you do that keeps you stagnated and begin to think of how to fly with the big birds. A lot of sacrifices is needed to stand out in the public. I was once surrounded by friends who where limited to what they know and never wanted to improve, instead of improving they argue Alot, they even ague what they don't know even when someone that knows it is taking to them. They always believe they know everything and at a point i decided to stay away from them and make new friends who don't ague but learn from anything. And now I am far far away from them because I never learned anything good from them. Now they see me as a bad friend because I don't follow their company but I rather be a bad friend to them and become useful in life than be a good friend to them and be useless in life. We are the products of what we feed ourselves. A positive mind will begot a positive vibe and a negative mind will begot a negative influence or vibe in the society.

Without a doubt, the people who we are in hangoing out defines who we are and it also goes the other way, we just hang out with the people who we want to become so it's not like there is no mistake from our side.

Networking is important to get rich, because most of the time we can't do things on our own and we may need insights, opinions, advice and guidance from the one who has been there which saves us time, money and the struggle part.

Yeah that's true, OP I believe that as an individual, we should make sure that the people who surround us are those who we are willing to learn from ,or who are willing to learn from us. Because the moment you stick with people that   can't impact you, gradually, gradually, you will start falling financially, physically, mentally, and psychologically. That said I would like to believe anyone can be successful without friends that is if your friends are of no impact to you then simply neglect them. Why? Because we live in a world where no one is looking for your progress especially when people are starting to envy you. So definitely let's be clear every person's future is determined by their social life. That's just it.

This is a typical thing we think but life is dynamic. It's not the way we see things from movies, from other people that is going to happen to everyone. Like, I know one man that literally hate everyone and complain about people, including his family but the man is working as manager to a power holding company and his making money only his son is having access to. Is the son a stubborn and don't listen type? No, he is one of the cool kid I have seen into money.

Life can happen to anyone, you may not having too much friends in your cycle and you can be successful as fuck. Do you know how many low key people with Bitcoin and not one day they have ever talk they have Bitcoin? I never knew people are Bitcoin rich until the day they made donations for that silk road guy that was arrested by the US government, people that you never thought have money were donating some Bitcoin and yet they live a very low profile and doesn't associate with lot of people.

As they say, birds of same feather flock together.


How do you figure who you are? What I take myself to be is merely result of surroundings, and I don't feel this to be having any weight because I could be born elsewhere and I would be a different person.

the people you choose to hang around says a lot about you who are

Surrounding yourself with successful people is not all of it, surround yourself with successful people who for you. You can surround yourself with the right people but they don’t have anything better to give you, the hide opportunities, connections and knowledge from you.
In a circle there can be rich friends and poor friends who have been together.
Be in the right room, spend on your self, groom yourself, opportunities can for you even if it’s not from your circle.

Show me your friends and I tell you who you are, it's the same thing OP is meaning in his post, if you around web developers, then you become one sooner, if you around smokers, then you become one sooner. It's never a joke when such awareness is raised and that some people are not ready to change because they could still see their low vibrational engagement as fun.

Your peers can be your good influence, but at the same time, they can also be bad influence for you. That is why choose your friends wisely. They could be part of your future's success or failure, so you have to be very cautious on whose friends you want to stay, because their presence will have a life-changing effect on the future you are building.

The way your friends treat you will also determine the character you will become. Lucky are those who met inspiring friends as they can be part of your incredible journey, and unfortunate those who have stayed in wrong people because they will keep on pulling you down, instead of friends lifting each other to achieve success in all life's aspects.

True life advice, the environment, people, and lifestyle of those around us really play a huge role in our achievement, staying with people who have greater innovation will surely influence us to do better. Humans are meant to adapt when the surroundings become convenient under bare minimum, such person won't see or create room for development, a reason why it is advised to always move out of comfort zones, when it gets too comfortable, just know that limitation has been made to limit for future growth.

Everything you said is facts, you are not different from the company you keep. There is nothing wrong in knowing people that do all of these things but if they become your acquaintances then you are not different from them. The type of friends you keep says a lot about you, hanging around people that don't talk about investments or how to get richer is going to influence your future negatively. The rich keeps on getting richer because of the cycle of friends they have, every discussion between them is about a new investment and how to keep pn making money. Having a social life is good but it only helps when you are in contact with the right people

I remember this was part of our short discussions in our Economics subject back in college, and yeah, there's a truth in this saying.
If I remember it correctly, my professor said, people with small minds constantly talk about people, people with average minds talk about places and events, and people with brilliant minds talk about opportunities, profits, business, and things like these.
However, success in life still depends on how you do the work - not just talk.

There's a saying that if you are friends with five rich people, you will be the 6th rich person, and if you are friends with five stupid people, you will be the 6th foolish person.  So yeah, your social life influences the path you take in this life. So, choose your friends wisely, and you are in the right direction.
Birds of the same feather flock together. People's thoughts around you will influence you.

People welcome people with the same mind.  I do not think people with good morals will stay to mingle with people with bad morals but I agree environment shape people unless people seclude themselves and keep away from outside influence.  But once a character is established, I do not think outside influence will have that strong influence anymore.

If you tolerate yourself dealing with pessimistic people, most likely you will also become one in the next days or months. But if you are selective with your friends and only focus on positive, smart and hard-working individuals, you will also tend to adopt their traits and become as successful and goal-oriented as they are. Your friends will serve as your mirror, their kind of characters will definitely be your own self in the future. So do not settle on friends that you can't gain benefits, mentally, emotionally and spiritually, but be with people who could motivate you to improve yourself for the better or the best, and not that could turn you into your worst version of yourself.

If you want to achieve great things in life, deal with people who share the same purpose and goals in life. It is not about who have achieved many or less, but its the right mindset and proven strategies of these people that will create a difference in your life. You get some benefits from them, and at the same time, they also learned form you, that's how mutual cooperation works. If you think others are competing, then your circle of friends may not be the right people for you.

This is true and it has positive impact in your life if you could do this. Besides if your parents comes from this kind of characteristics you'll also adapt what they do and thank God my mom isn't that kind to hang out with those kind of people and probably that's what we inherited up to this day and we siblings are truly thankful for that.