 Next question is from Dr. Stewie Quads. Have you ever had to change your circle in order to improve your mental health and well-being? Circle of friends? Is that what I'm assuming? This is one of the toughest things that you might have to do in order to improve yourself. I know for people, for example, who have issues with smoking and they want to quit, one of the most effective things, the studies will show this, one of the most effective things you could do is stop hanging around with smokers and you'll find that you're less likely to smoke. I used to, you know, I've got a lot of cousins and we all used to like to hang out and stuff like that. And I got into my career very early in fitness. I was a trainer at 18, 19, I was managing trainers and then gyms. And we were teens, early 20s, that's when people like to go out and hang out and party and whatever. And my goals and focus were different than theirs and so I stopped hanging out with them because my focus was on my career and on fitness and managing gyms. And it wouldn't have worked if I kept going out with them and hanging out at the bars and stuff. It just wouldn't have worked. So yeah, I mean I've done it and you have to do it. Adam says this all the time, was it the sum total of the five course people? I was going to say the average of the five people that you hang out with. I don't think this is a you may have to do. I think everybody, if you're going to continue to grow and evolve, you will not only have to do this, but you'll probably do this multiple times in your life. Because otherwise, are you really the same person you were when you were 18? And that's not a knock on the people that I was hanging out because I still have a love for those people. But as you continue to grow and push yourself, and if you do believe that you are an average of the five people you hang around the most, that even if you love that one guy or girl that you've known since she was 15 or he was 15 and you're now 40, but they have some bad habits. And I'll give you an example for me, the last friend. And I still consider them my friend. I would just talk to him about a month ago. So I think when you change your circle, it doesn't necessarily mean you have to break up with them. It doesn't need to be this like, we can't be friends anymore because I've outgrown you. Getting a phone with them? Yeah, it doesn't need to be like that. Just ghost them. Yeah, it's easier. Well, this friend that I'm talking about. So I've talked on the show before that I like the sports gamble. So that's like a thing of mine. I like anything, something like that can turn into a serious addiction and an issue and a problem. I like to think I'm a pretty self aware person. And so I really monitor a lot of those things in my life. And I remember a few years back, this is like five, five years or so go back, maybe six. And it was like a Tuesday afternoon. And I was hanging out a lot with this buddy of mine. And him and I were at like a sports bar on a Tuesday. And I was betting pretty big money on some, you know, like a, like a wizards game versus, I don't even remember who it was, like the, like Memphis Grizzlies. I would never even watch that game. Is that a real team? Yeah. It sounds like a Dungeons and Dragons game. And I thought you just made up two teams. No, no. Wizards versus Warlock. And so I remember I had this moment of that, you know, I know that I, and I was like, I was like, what the hell am I doing gambling this kind of any money, much less the amount of money I was gambling. You want to tell us how much? It's, it's now, because I don't want to hear you give me shit. It's irrelevant. Yeah. It's, it's definitely way more than you would ever spend on probably anything for yourself. So, so anyways, and I think I even won, but that wasn't the point. The point was what am I doing, right? What am I doing here on a Tuesday in a bar gambling on a game? I don't even care about it. I've, it's now turned into more of an addiction. And I know that that's influenced because of the person I hang out with. Now I'm in control of my own decisions. He didn't force me to do that, but because I were hanging out so much. He does that so much. It's really easy for me to get sucked in. And that's just an example of how that could be happening in your circle. And what I had to do was I had to eliminate us hanging out. Doesn't mean we broke up or I don't still talk to him or ask him how his wife and kids, he just had another baby, how he's doing. Like, but I stopped hanging out with him on a regular basis. And I replaced that with somebody like a Justin or a Sal or a Doug in my life, who I think is going to have a better influence on me that I think have other aspects of their life that I aspire to be like, or I want in my life. And so that's what you got to continually be doing. And if you're always growing, I feel like that circle is always molding and kind of changing. Yeah. Not really like evaluating that is a disservice to your growth. It's going to limit your growth. It's a hard thing to do. It's something because it's so comfortable. It's, it's, you know it already, like, you know, you're sort of this person around those people too. And so you don't really want to let go of that person either. So you feel like, you know, like, well, I'm funny or I'm, you know, it's easy. It's comfortable, you know, hanging out because like I can just be myself quote unquote. But, you know, if you're really trying to, you know, strive for change and become something, you know, greater, it's going to require some hard transition. And so it's hard to do that. You're totally right. You ever do that where you, like, there's a circle of friends and you kind of, you know, you outgrow them or whatever. You don't, you're not around them a lot. And then all of a sudden you run into them, you hang out and you find yourself slipping. You revert back to this weird person. Yeah. Like, why am I talking this way? Why am I like doing this kind of stuff? I feel like people who are really into self improvement probably go through this process more often. Multiple times. Yeah, I totally agree. I mean, I try to give you guys something that's the most recent that's happened to me, but this has happened so many times in my life. I mean, my original friends, we grew up, we were best friends of mine in high school. And the things that connected to us was competitive sports and that we just went to the same high school. I mean, but we, and partying. Like those were the, those are like the three main things that we were super bonded by. And what happened was, as we all got older and you're parting less, you're not going to these, you're not playing sports anymore. You have kids now? Yeah. All this shit starts happening. And then you realize that the things that you guys did with each other, talk shit to each other, put each other down, you know, because you thought it was funny and high school and stuff. And you started to realize like, geez, I'm a grown ass man now. Like, I don't want a friend. Yeah, I don't need a friend who's like cutting me low every time he sees me. You're not happy for my success. Yeah. Like, but yet you get sucked into it because you have these other bonds with them. Yeah. And a lot of times those bonds are, are attachments that you have because of mutual insecurities. And until you have the self-awareness to, to see that and recognize that, it's hard to break free from this. But if you're going to see continued growth in your life, I absolutely agree, Sal. This is not something that's probably going to happen once. It's going to happen several times in your life and you should probably be seeking that. It is. And I think the people that you end up staying close with forever are probably growers with you. You know what I mean? Yeah, they're seeking the same thing. Yeah, they're also growing and they're respecting your growth. And, you know, because people who aren't growers, they get threatened by it. What do you mean? Be showers. Yeah. What do you mean you're not going to, you're not going to come hang out, you know, and do this at, you know, midnight or whatever. You know, and you're like, well, I'm a dad now or whatever. And they won't respect that. And you can tell that they're not respecting. Oh, yeah. They give you shit for it. They're like, oh, they're being happy. Exactly. So, you know, I personally, I like to surround myself now as I'm older. I like to be with other growers, even if I have less in common with them, because if we have that in common, we build a bond that could last forever. And I find myself when I hang out like with you guys, like, you know, when we start a mine pump, I'll tell you what, I grew more in the last five years. Oh, yeah. Than I did in the previous, I don't know. Same. How many? Because everybody here is such a grower that it makes me do the same thing. And that's our bond. I mean, the truth is, I don't have a whole lot besides working out in fitness in common with, you know, all you guys. But one thing we have in common is we tend to want to be growers. And so I'd say if you want to find a circle that'll stick around, you probably want to find another circle of people who prioritize self-improvement. And the beauty of that is that it will accelerate so much good in your life when you find that. Oh, yeah. When you find that, because those people that are like that, they're going to, they'll pick you up when you're down and encourage you when things aren't going well, celebrate your victories like... Mourn your losses. Yeah, no, 100%. So... I thought, I mean, Justin, when we first met, he said, hey, Sal, are you a grower? And I was like, huh? Yeah, yeah. Show me.