Like financial investing, this has drawbacks as well. If there is a social group which is an especially good fit or especially beneficial to you, then diversifying away from it makes you get less overall value from friendships. Only if you don’t have any idea where the gains/losses are coming from should you diversify for diversity sake.
Once you’ve sampled a number of different groups, you can allocate your social time disproportionally to those you get the most from. And still perhaps keep the others—this is more a hedge than a diversification strategy.
UNLIKE financial choices, you’re investing time and emotional energy into friends. This is a FAR more limited, precious, and non-fungible resource. And the rewards are also non-fungible and non-storable (and in many cases, non-linear with investment size), very unlike money. The things that are no-brainers for financial decisions (diversity among categories and individual investments, reinvesting, deferred payouts) don’t always directly apply to other life decisions.
Like financial investing, this has drawbacks as well. If there is a social group which is an especially good fit or especially beneficial to you, then diversifying away from it makes you get less overall value from friendships. Only if you don’t have any idea where the gains/losses are coming from should you diversify for diversity sake.
Once you’ve sampled a number of different groups, you can allocate your social time disproportionally to those you get the most from. And still perhaps keep the others—this is more a hedge than a diversification strategy.
UNLIKE financial choices, you’re investing time and emotional energy into friends. This is a FAR more limited, precious, and non-fungible resource. And the rewards are also non-fungible and non-storable (and in many cases, non-linear with investment size), very unlike money. The things that are no-brainers for financial decisions (diversity among categories and individual investments, reinvesting, deferred payouts) don’t always directly apply to other life decisions.