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Hunger, Not Desperation, and Cutting Loser Friends

from 163 - How To Be Popular · #163

4 min

Continuing the popularity advice, Tim explains the importance of appearing hungry but not clingy, having resources like a car or a house to offer, and ruthlessly cutting old friends who resent your success.

In this bit9 moments
  • Tim on the key to success: be hungry, not desperate, and always seem like you have other plans.
  • Be the first person with a car, drugs, a gun, bullets, or a house where people can party.
  • Figure out what a popular group is missing and become that thing, whether funny, good-looking, or blandly reliable.
  • Tim is on keto and was denied a smoothie but approved for an egg breakfast with Grove LA and spinach.
  • Loser friends have to go because they only bond with you over mutual failure and will resent your success.
  • Once you improve, old friends will claim you've changed and complain about how everyone sucks, so the friendship dies.
  • Hollywood is written by losers who fetishize loser stories and make them into king and queen narratives.
  • There's one Fiona Apple, and the rest of you are eating cat litter on your floor like a cat.
  • Popular people from Hollywood either hit a ceiling or become Logan Paul, George W. Bush, Cardi B, Donald Trump, or Tim.
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HollywoodLogan PaulDonald TrumpCardi BFiona AppleGeorge W. BushBrenda

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