YOUR FRIENDS ARE A 40% CURSE. CUT THEM OR BECOME THEM.
Let me paint you a picture of your life, because you’re probably too distracted to see it clearly.
You wake up. Not early, because what’s the point? You scroll through your phone. Your group chat is already buzzing. It’s not buzzing with investment ideas, workout plans, or strategies to conquer the day. It’s a pile of digital vomit—memes, complaints about work, pictures of the trash they ate for dinner, and plans to “grab a drink” later to numb the pain of their own existence.
You go to work, you come home, you repeat. Your weekends are a blur of cheap beer, expensive takeaways, and conversations that go in circles about the same problems, with the same people, offering the same zero solutions.
You feel stuck. You are stuck.
And you have the audacity to wonder why.
You look in the mirror and see your gut growing, your bank account stagnating, and your ambition dissolving. You think it’s your fault. You blame your discipline, your genes, your “bad luck.”
But you’re wrong.
It’s not you. It’s THEM.
The people you call your “friends” are not your friends. They are your captors. They are the architects of your prison, and you handed them the keys.
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THE 40% CANCER
Science has confirmed what winners have known for centuries. Your social circle doesn’t just influence you; it dictates your future. Studies show that if your close friends are obese, you have a 57% increased chance of becoming obese yourself. If they are smokers, you’re 61% more likely to pick up the poison. If they’re poor in mindset and wallet, you will be dragged into that financial black hole.
Let’s translate that into a language your crumbling ego can understand: Your life has a 40% chance of being a carbon copy of the five people you spend the most time with.
Read that again.
40%.
That’s not an influence. That’s a mathematical curse.
You are not a special snowflake. You are a biological machine programmed to conform. Your brain is wired to seek the approval of your tribe. When your tribe is a bunch of lazy, broke, weak-minded losers, your subconscious mind will drag you down to their level to fit in. It will sabotage your diet, kill your motivation, and empty your wallet just to maintain that sense of belonging.
Belonging to what? A loser’s club? A pity party?
You hang out with fat friends, and your brain subconsciously accepts that being fat is normal. So when you’re about to order a salad, you “treat yourself” to a pizza because “Dave is having one.” Dave is 40 pounds overweight and pre-diabetic. Congratulations, you just let Dave’s disease become your standard.
You hang out with broke friends, and their poverty mindset becomes your virus. They talk about “the grind” being unfair, they mock people who are successful, they say things like “must be nice” instead of “how can I do that?” You absorb this. You start to believe that wealth is for other people, not you. You stop chasing deals, you stop building, you start settling for a paycheck that barely covers your misery.
Your friends are a live, walking, talking preview of your life in 5 years.
Is it a preview you want to see?
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THE BROKEN VS. THE SLAYEBRITY
There are two types of people in this world, and your circle will determine which one you become.
The Broken:
· Physically: Soft. Overweight or skinny-fat. Low energy. They treat their body like a garbage disposal.
· Financially: Broke or perpetually “getting by.” They trade time for money and are always one missed paycheck from disaster.
· Mentally: Weak. They are victims. The world is always against them. Their favorite hobby is complaining. They are experts in excuses.
The Slaylebrity:
· Physically: A weapon. Disciplined. Strong. High energy. They fuel their body for performance.
· Financially: Free. They make money work for them. They are builders, creators, and owners.
· Mentally: Unbreakable. They are emperors of their own reality. They take 100% responsibility for everything. They find a way, or they make one.
Look at your friends. Truly look at them.
Are they Broken? Are they dragging you into their pity-parade, their fast-food runs, their financial illiteracy?
Or are they Slaylebrities? Do they push you in the gym? Do they send you business ideas? Do their conversations elevate your thinking and charge you up?
You cannot fly with eagles if you are scratching with turkeys.
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THE EMERGENCY AUDIT: YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT
Right now. Not tomorrow. You are going to do an audit. You are going to put every single person you spend time with on trial.
Take out a piece of paper or open a notes app. I don’t care. Just do it.
For each “friend,” ask these brutal, honest questions:
1. The Physique Test: Do they look like they respect themselves? Are they in shape, or are they a warning sign? When you suggest going to the gym, do they laugh or do they lace up?
2. The Wallet Test: What is their relationship with money? Do they invest? Do they build? Or do they only spend and complain? Do they talk about ideas, or do they talk about things?
3. The Mindset Test: Are they a radiator or a drain? Do they radiate energy, ambition, and solutions? Or do they drain your energy, shoot down your dreams, and drown you in problems?
4. The Ambition Test: Are they striving for something greater? Do they have goals that excite you? Or is their highest ambition to secure a new Netflix password and find the best happy hour?
Categorize them. Relentlessly.
· The Keepers (The Slaylebrities): The 1% who make you better. You feel energized after being with them. You learn from them. They are on the path to the top, and they are pulling you up with them. CHERISH THEM.
· The Tolerated (The Neutrals): They aren’t dragging you down, but they aren’t lifting you up. They’re neutral. Maybe they’re family, or old friends with a good heart but no ambition. LIMIT YOUR EXPOSURE.
· The Terminated (The Broken): They are a cancer. Every interaction leaves you feeling worse. They mock your goals, enable your bad habits, and their very presence makes you weaker. CUT THEM. NOW.
Cutting them isn’t cruel. It’s survival. It’s self-respect.
Staying with them is self-sabotage. It’s slow-motional suicide.
You think you’re being a “good friend” by sticking with the losers? You’re not. You’re being the worst friend imaginable to the most important person in your life: YOUR FUTURE SELF.
Your potential is dying, suffocated by the low expectations of the people you call friends.
The path to the top, to freedom, to becoming a Slaylebrity, is narrow. There is no room for dead weight. There is no room for people who are okay with being at the bottom.
You have a simple, brutal choice to make.
You can have your “friends” and their miserable, mediocre life.
Or you can have your freedom, your physique, your fortune, and your future.
But you can’t have both.
The matrix of mediocrity wants you surrounded by the Broken. It keeps you docile, weak, and consuming.
Break the matrix.
Audit your circle. Terminate the weak. Embrace the elite.
Your 40% curse is waiting to be broken. What color is your bugatti? It’s whatever color the person driving next to you has, if you’re dumb enough to believe that.
Stop being dumb.
You wake up. Not early, because what’s the point? You scroll through your phone. Your group chat is already buzzing. It’s not buzzing with investment ideas, workout plans, or strategies to conquer the day. It’s a pile of digital vomit—memes, complaints about work, pictures of the trash they ate for dinner, and plans to grab a drink later to numb the pain of their own existence. YOUR FRIENDS ARE A 40% CURSE. CUT THEM OR BECOME THEM.
