5Scientific Proof That 50% of Your Friendships are Fake
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
—Booker T. Washington
Some people don't want you to be successful. Even some of your so‐called friends or colleagues don't want you to get ahead. They might say they do, but behind their big toothy grins and pats on the back, they want to see you held back—or at least behind or below them.
Scientific researchers from the University of Tel Aviv and MIT found that, in general, everyone is pretty terrible at accurately perceiving our friendships.1 Our judgment is so bad that for every one real friend we have, we also have one fake friend. The study concluded the following:
“We found that 95 ...
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