20 Income Determined by Your Five Closest Friends
b"You have heard the famous quote or statement that 'your income is the average of your five closest friends.' It could be within the range someplace, but nevertheless it is constrained, that's right, constrained by the performance of your five closest friends. This quote is credited to Jim Rohn as I've been told. How is this idea derived?\\n\\n\\n\\nYour five closest friends and associates are friends because you have similar interests; go to similar places and live in similar surroundings. That is, they are within your comfort zone, (see episode 15). Additionally, you are comfortably within their comfort zones, which is the danger.\\n\\nIf you try to drift out of the comfort zones of your friends, they will discourage you. After all, most people never will leave their comfort zone.\\n\\nThere is a causal relationship between where a person lives and their friends, future lifestyle, business and income. In this episode we discuss how it affects everything from your education to where you live and what vacations you have. It is your future.\\n\\nSo, how do you make progress with all these limits on you? I discuss what I did and what you might consider yourself.\\n\\nThomas:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Welcome to another episode of Life Unsettled \\u2013 New Path, Better Future. Today I\\u2019m going to talk a little bit differently on a topic that most people feel that they know something about, and they probably do to some extent \\u2013 the comfort zone. (see Episode 15) We have lots of opinions, ideas, and thoughts on it, but I want to try to think about it in a little bit more expansive and different way.\\n\\nOf course, the comfort zone is where you go in where you\\u2019re needing to learn new stuff or you\\u2019re going to learn new stuff. That is you go outside the area you\\u2019re comfortable with to get into something that is different.\\n\\nIt\\u2019s not just about learning that makes you uncomfortable, but it\\u2019s also social situations, whether in person or online, meeting new people in uncomfortable situations, networking, etc., you at first are going to have some level of discomfort, some level of uncertainty of the outcome. It\\u2019s part of learning. We\\u2019ll figure part of that out in a little bit. Also, in social situations, meeting new people, will you be accepted? Will you be embarrassed? All those situations are outside the comfort zone.\\n\\nA little bit of a warning, in a sense, because thinking about this, we get back to the concept mentioned in the first episode on causality; cause and effect of being in a situation or on the edge or outside of your comfort zone, you are going to have certain other things take effect. That is: when you\\u2019re uncomfortable, why is that? Your judgment is going to be a little off, you\\u2019re going to be in a risky, stressful, uncertain situation.\\n\\nThink of the comfort zone as you get out of it, you\\u2019re pushing the envelope. Let\\u2019s think of in terms of a circle with a dot in the middle. Actually, when I was at one company, my boss brought me in for something and said: \\u201cGee, I\\u2019m very concerned.\\u201d I was actually brought into that company to make changes. My boss said: \\u201cI want to make sure that people are not uncomfortable.\\u201d I said: -\\u201cMay I borrow your whiteboard?\\u201d -\\u201cYeah, sure.\\u201d\\n\\nSo I scratched off some of the junk that was on there, put a dot and a circle, with a dot right in the center of the circle. I said: \\u201cThink of this as a comfort zone. You don\\u2019t want me to just push slightly on the edge of it. You really want to make change, here.\\u201d He said: \\u201cYes, absolutely.\\u201d I said: \\u201cChange that\\u2019s going to be new and different, that is going to make people uncomfortable.\\u201d\\n\\nNeedless to say, we soon realized what those implications were. This guy is really bright, and even somebody like that, people that don\\u2019t understand or talk about the comfort zone don\\u2019t really have a good feeling of what it is and what it means to step outside and get outside of it.\\n\\nGoing outside the comfort zone, that is part of learning, is going to be subject to the stress on you going outside into so..."