I was originally going to cosign the op's post but something about the post bothered me for real.
The message is wrong actually because now when I think about it, you have to be careful in terms of what we define as success, on what being successful is, what someone did to become successful, and a whole lot of other shyt. I have to put "success" in quotes.
What do you think is success? Is it having three cars and a mansion or being able to achieve happiness and peace from within while living your true passion despite not making a lot of money? Success and failure are subjective.
Theres plenty of losers and scumbags who are "successful" that I'm quite positively sure are to be avoided at all cost. Keep in mind there's plenty of folks that had to do some despicable shyt to be successful. I think a persons character and personality is more important in terms of determining who to be around. Harvey Weinstein is "successful", Donald Trump is "successful", and we all know about them. The examples are countless. Some of the most miserable and ugliest people in this world are "successful". They have no code of ethics. Marlo Stanfield would be considered to be "successful". Plenty of "successful" people are not happy.
I think this post is more centered around the ego than it is from the heart. Yes, you do have to network, have to feed off of peoples energies, make moves and etc with other people depending on the situation to meet whatever goals you have. Hopefully these goals are positive.
But a lot of it depends on the person themselves. Someone who is ambitious, motivated, has tenacity, willpower, patience and a whole bunch of good traits centered towards getting what they want done.. that's more important than just the people you hang around. That one person can actually inspire other people to pull themselves up when they aren't in the right state of mind to get what they have to get done.
....so i guess im sumn' like a saint
