When you are becoming obsessive about your work, its easy to fall into the trap of letting the rest of life fall by the wayside. Even in myself I notice that when I am in a period of really grinding, I can lose focus on the social aspects of life. An extreme example of what I'm talking about might be the genius forward-posture neckbeard software developer. He might be the best at what he does, but nobody wants to be around him. I think that this is the biggest mistake a lot of people make when they enter into a period of intense focus on any skill. They get really good, but they don't spend much time doing anything else and they come out of it being kind of weird. If you can develop yourself into a charismatic, magnetic personality, doing business with others will be so much easier for you. If you are a genius programmer but everyone hates working with you because you haven't developed yourself socially, you are going to have a big problem when it comes to working with other people. So, throw in some personal development into your routine. You don't have to limit yourself to only reading business books. You can read books about whatever you want, social psychology, relationships, personal memoirs, whatever. Anything that will sharpen you as a person is no waste of time. I encourage you to be the ones to initiate interactions with your friends, be the organizer for events. Isolation will catch up to you quickly.
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