Interpersonal relationships are also a long-term investment: you should actively distance yourself from three types of people who continuously pull you down—victims with a complaining and blame-shifting mentality, clever people without moral boundaries, and stubborn people who refuse to learn, because they drain your emotions, undermine trust, and hinder growth. At the same time, deliberately cultivate relationships with people who are upright and trustworthy, continuously improving, generous and unselfish, emotionally stable, long-term oriented, and aligned in values. These relationships bring cognitive elevation and compounding opportunities. The truly effective approach is not broad socializing, but rather streamlining your circle, identifying people through details, stopping losses when problems arise, and constantly elevating yourself, because people are only attracted to those at similar levels to themselves.