Some thoughts that came in my head when reading this.

Who decides who is bright or brighter?

I think you can evaluate it only for specific topics. Let’s say you want to get better in financial topics. So someone would be „brighter“ who made a lot of money.

Hopefully this person is at least at as bright as you in other aspects, as you would get less bright at these aspects because of him.

Other question is, why should a “brighter” person connect with someone who is less bright. In this case he could not improve.

In my opinion you can get bright by yourself. Does not matter if you have bright or not bright friends.

Sure, bright friends will boost in your improvement. But for me that’s kind of FIAT/Shitcoin thinking.

Because there’s more value in people than just seeing your own improvement. Experiences you lived together etc bond together. Or helping each other in shitty times.

Lol that escalated quickly. Just wanted to share my thoughts in one or two sentences 😅