Five’s A Crowd: How Friends Influence Your Dog - a podcast by Ty Brown

Today I want to write a little about the sum of your friends. There’s a statement on this topic that I’ve heard many times over the years, almost always from motivational speakers and others of that variety. Now, I know that sometimes motivational speakers are just trying to sell a book or a course, so I don’t know if the statement is completely accurate. Obviously you can’t speak in absolutes, but I believe this is the truth in most cases. I’ll paraphrase the statement here:

“In life, your income will be proportionate to the average of the five people you hang out with most.”

What does that mean? Basically, that if your five best friends earn $30,000 a year, you’ll probably make the same amount. If the five people you choose to hang out with the most are making $500,000 a year, however, you will probably land somewhere around that yourself. The reasoning behind this—which is probably more anecdotal than anything—is that when you hang out with the same type of person over and over, they tend to make certain decisions and think in certain ways. Often that makes an impact on you, and you influence them in turn. In short, everyone begins to influence each other. By hanging out with these types of people, you end up making roughly the same salary as they do.

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