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friendship beats money

Inspired by Aiden's Nobody cares how much money you make.

Broad terms like intelligence, betterment, and lucrativeness benefit from qualification. Speaking of, can you tie lucrativeness to holistic wealth over monetary wealth? Other tools exist besides money to help people flourish: interests, behaviors, attitudes, activities, etc. How can you encourage diversifying your responsible tool usage the same way you diversify your investments?

Institutions regularly pull the rug out from students. Curricula train students so well that most work faculties are learned on the job. Good jobs inspire burnout, good schools inspire dropouts, and good grades rot outside academia. If you're feeling miserable in your job, school, or other context, changes might be needed. You can separate your identity from these temporal life aspects.

A stranger once said only money makes friends. Even I, with my anemic social network, know that's false. People can support each other through enough shared values to cultivate genuine friendships. I find those more resilient than transactional friendships that end once payments stop or the employee finds a new employer. This stranger I met can separate their identity from their hindering belief. Will they?

Money doesn't always signal intelligence or well-being either. Visible geniuses get support from dense, multi-faceted social networks. Yet so many geniuses fell through the cracks. Incorrectly handled abundance through lottery winnings, hefty inheritances, and other windfalls can strangle relationships. How can you put money and similar items to better use?

Can you articulate your desires, experiment with them, then maximize what sticks to naturally mitigate dislikes and boredom? Curate trusted social networks atop that process to then let personal excess uplift those who reciprocate with you.

People want to be heard and feel togetherness. Be present, listen, then reciprocate as desired. Even those that faced great adversity in life can find a way forward socially. You are often one interaction away from strengthening a bond or making a new friend. How much of your beneficial interactions are (or can be) free of charge?

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