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The 3 Kinds of People That Will Make You the Better Version of Yourself

When looking for new friends, choose wisely

Brandon Bell
7 min readAug 29, 2020
Photo by Zachary Nelson on Unsplash

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with,” said motivational speaker Jim Rohn.

We all have friends of some sort or people who we hang around with often. We cherish these people for their unique personalities and also for their similarities to us.

As we get older and gain new experiences, there’s a time where we’ll face having to make new friends. The friends that are in our lives now have somehow and someway trusted us for years without ever leaving. It’s nice to have them around, but what do we do when we encounter a new group of people that we barely know.

Once we do get over our shyness and have the courage to introduce ourselves, how do we know that these people are the right fit for us? Well, it mostly comes down to the things that we need in our lives currently. Mostly having to do with what we need emotionally.

When looking for a new friend, we try to see the good in them, we want to know if that person can relate to us. Unfortunately, even though we’re all human beings, we’re not always going to be compatible with one another. So, it would be easier to categorize these people into three possible personalities or at…

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Brandon Bell
Brandon Bell

Written by Brandon Bell

A young adult who’s writing is geared towards self-improvement and self care. “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

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