Do You Have To Dump Friends To Be Successful?

Miki Agrawal, author of Do Cool Sh*t: Quit Your Day Job, Start Your Own Business, Live Happily Ever After has done everything from investment banking to playing professional soccer, to starting a sustainable underwear company.

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Succeeding in business is all about who you know, and Miki says you’ve got to get your friends involved on the ground floor. Once she has an idea for a business, she puts together a “meeting of the minds,” where she invites all of her “smartest friends from different industries” together for a brainstorming session.

But to have a good group of friends you can count on, “Step 1, overall, is to eliminate negative relationships in your life.” So how do you get rid of those people? Miki put together a list of “inspiring friends and depleting friends.”

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She explains what she means by ‘depleting friends’: “Do they wanna just get drunk on weekends? Do they wanna just talk about other people? Do they not wanna talk about ideas?” Miki says you have to eliminate the negative friendships that don’t inspire you.

So whom should you replace them with? Miki also explains how to find the friends that will inspire your creativity and entrepreneurial spirit in this episode of Daily Shot.