The speaker delivers a direct, motivational monologue about the importance of one's social circle. She argues that associating with negative people, whom she calls 'losers,' will inevitably lead to a similar negative outcome, while surrounding oneself with successful people ('winners') is essential for personal growth. She supports her points with several examples, a quote from a mentor, a personal anecdote of her own transformation, and a powerful analogy, concluding that you become who you surround yourself with.
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Only other winners want to see you win. If your circle hasn't built anything, their negativity will become your life. You can change your stripes, but you can't change other people.
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Transcript
Harsh truth. If you hang out with losers, you will become a loser. If you hang out with people who say that it's not possible, you will become a person who thinks it's not possible. If you hang out with people who have never built anything, you will never build anything. And if you hang out with people who make fun of other people, you will someday be made fun of. I remember one of my mentors at Goldman said, being a loser is even more contagious than being a better. You gotta cut them out of your circle relentlessly and apologize zero for it. The truth is losers do not like winners. They will not want you to win. They will smile. They will pretend like they're happy for you, but they aren't. Only other winners want to see you win. And remember, I went to ASU. I partied too much. I was kind of a loser early on. Losers can become winners. You can change your stripes, but you cannot change other people. You can only become a winner yourself. Doing that is how you lift up others. Staying around other people who wanna keep you down is how you stay down forever. Imagine trying to get healthy while you're sitting in a petri dish of disease. We take on what is around us. You'll start looking like them, talking like them, acting like them, and before you know, you'll have the same life as them. There's nothing worse than being around cynics who have achieved nothing.