How to Know When It's Time to Cut a Friend

0:00And it's one of the things that freedom affords. And freedom is often downstream from wealth. Remember George, one of my really good friends, been on the show like five times. George Mack, you'll follow him on Twitter. He's [ __ ] phenomenal. He was on he was on Fox and Friends yesterday talking about his cocaine phone and his kale phone. Like, what the [ __ ] What world is this? >> Yeah. >> I remember before the first time that I moved away to work. I've been I've traveled a lot, but it was always in between work. I never traveled to work.

0:25COVID happens. world gets shut down just after Halloween. Boris tells all of the UK, "We're going back into lockdown in three days time and all flights are canceled." So, I messaged George and I was like, I'm not doing this. I'm I go somewhere. He wanted to go to I can't I can't even remember some island that has 300,000 people on it. And I was like, why don't we do Dubai?

0:51It's a 5-hour flight. The weather's great. I know people. It'll be fun. It's not got 300,000 people on it. It'll be the Uber. And I'll never [ __ ] forget what he replied to me with. I got up and I paid £350 for my COVID fittofly test before he was awake. But he'd sent me a message the night before and this is what compelled me to do it. He said, "What's the point in having [ __ ] you freedom if you never say [ __ ] you?"

1:17And I was like, I was so fired up reading that message. And I was like, yeah, why have I put all of this work in? Why have I done all of these things if I don't ever punk a game that I didn't agree to be a part of? >> I think this is really big if we go all the way back to the earlier part of this podcast. When you have the friends who are telling you, oh, um, must be nice or you think you're better than us or oh, so we can't drink anymore. That's when you can be like, yeah, then what? Well, then we wouldn't be friends. You're not going to be friends with them eventually anyways. I promise you anyone who says that you're not going to be friends with if you want to ultimately become the person you want to become, they're only going to reject you harder and harder until eventually you have nothing to share about. And the only thing that you'll talk about is the past, which by the way, one of the great leading indicators of at least in my opinion of a great way to know when to cut a friend is when they only talk about your past. And so punking the game and it's it's one of those really uncomfortable things the first time you do it, but then you get more and more comfortable with it because they're like, I would never live your life. And you're like, I know [laughter]

2:26>> this relates to another one of yours. Don't trade your selfrespect for someone else's. It's easy to lose theirs and hard to get yours back. >> Yeah. But I would know. >> But you would know. Yeah. Uh related to the sort of cynicism thing that we were talking about earlier, and I call it the cynicism safety blanket, that sour [clears throat] grapes at an existential level. Um >> I had Sean Puri on the show. You know Sean, you've been on his you've been on My First Million.

2:52>> Uh he casually dropped this. I don't think this I don't think his episode's going to be out before this goes. Um, but it's money. And he said, "The cynics get to be right and the optimists get to be rich.