To the extent that you are or can be someone others look up to and are inspired by, stay friends with as many non-world-savers as possible. If you assess yourself as unable to exert a possible influence in this way, have less non-world-saver friendships. Or at least keep your two worlds from colliding, so the positive one isn’t hampered by the recreational one.
Having friends with shared interests is critical for many people—I can’t tell you how little I care about IT (my job) when I don’t have other enthusiastic people to discuss the tech with. Or, wait, I guess I just did.
Jordan—When Ben Franklin started the Junto, and later the American Philosophical Society, was he being cultish?
Thoughts on the 1st and 2nd points:
To the extent that you are or can be someone others look up to and are inspired by, stay friends with as many non-world-savers as possible. If you assess yourself as unable to exert a possible influence in this way, have less non-world-saver friendships. Or at least keep your two worlds from colliding, so the positive one isn’t hampered by the recreational one.
Having friends with shared interests is critical for many people—I can’t tell you how little I care about IT (my job) when I don’t have other enthusiastic people to discuss the tech with. Or, wait, I guess I just did.
Jordan—When Ben Franklin started the Junto, and later the American Philosophical Society, was he being cultish?