Quote from: uche6215 on January 10, 2025, 12:54:24 PM

The current level that you are is a product of the people who you soround your self with because associations matters a lot, in our biology we where taught about different associations that exist in nature which includes symbiosis, mutuality and parasitism etc are different types of associations that organisms in nature undergo for them to survive

That's the truth. While growing up, my dad will always tell me to be careful with the company I keep. As of then, I didn't understand what he meant. I thought he was only talking about keeping good or bad friends. Not until I came of age did I understand that the company, colleagues, and friends you keep around will somehow define your financial level. The rich mostly roll with the rich because they neglect the poor ones. But because most discussions have always led to the sharing of business ideas. Not just that alone, they also go as far as becoming business partners to shareholders and cofounders of a company. I am not saying that the poor people do not have business ideas to share. They all do. What differentiates each of them is the ability to implement those ideas.

Quote from: Spaceman1000$ on January 10, 2025, 02:00:09 PM

It is very true that the association you keep have impact into your life, there are lots of persons in our society that have secured good job opportunities basically because of the people they've associated themselves with, so most times the jobs and other opportunities through recommendations, that's the power of association. Even the Holy Bible recorded somewhere in Mathew when jesus said, " if the blind leads another blind, both of them will fall into a ditch" and that's what association can do. If as a human being there is something your lacking, it better you associate yourself with those who have what your lacking, it can be idea, it can be finances, it can be in terms of academics etc.

The Bible reference is valid. However, it is not an assurance that if you associate with some top personalities, there will be opportunities. If one is not prepared, then the opportunity might pass by. As much as we get to try to associate with big personalities this year, we should at least have something to offer, something that can make us acceptable, and then it will be a lot easier. Even the same Bible said that "faith without work is dead." There must be something in us that will attract the level of persons we want to associate with to reach out to us.