You can still be successful if you don't have any friends,...right?

Answer 1

you can say yes you may be successful but what the success means? To reach all every prosperity in the world and then stay alone and look at them and tell yourself yes I did them all, but so what after all? You may have the lowest success possible like say you win $10 on jackpot machine and after that if you have a good friend then you will feel the meaning of happy success by drinking sth with that money you won and enjoy it together. Also if you lose someday there is someone who cares and even though you don't need it your friend is thinking about you and tries to find a way for you. That is precious!!!

Answer 2

That depends on how you define success.

In the 1980s success was defined by position and income, as such it was quite possible to be successful without friends.

In the mid-90s the movement towards a more well rounded life began to emerge and today success if considered on a more well rounded scale. It still includes position, status, income and wealth. But today it also includes health and physical fitness, social and family life, qualification and adaptability.

The difference between the 2 ways of measuring success is that the classic 80s measure of success is entirely tangential and measurable. You can put a dollar value on a yearly income and a rank value on your position of employment. Much of the 90s-00s definition is intangible and immeasurable. You can not pick a defined point and say this is a 10 and this is a 1. a physical fitness score of 10 may not require you to have a 6 pack but it may require you to have good blood pressure and a well healthy body weight. This makes it far more difficult to assign a score aswell as the 5 dimensional matrix it requires to establish such a score makes it a fairly difficult process but far more accurate a measure of success by modern standards

Answer 3

Every person is different! Many have gone through live without a single friend, they have maybe had acquaintances, but a friend as in close friend, best friend, or life time firend, No not at all, does that make them a bad person? or weird? No not all all, it's a life they chose and one that they felt was maybe a waste of there time to get involved of having friends!

Can you be successful without friends? Sure can, many billions have no friends and they became very successful! Does having friends make your life better?, Not really! living your life with out firends isn't the end of the world. There's no law stating a person must have friends!

You can live your life any way you chose! if you feel having friends just holds you back from being what you really want to be in life, then that is your right! And no one should look at you as weird or strange! Some times life can be very Difficult to all of us, whether we have friends or not. We all seem to chose the paths we want to take and have that right. And when having friends, the path can get filled with many detours by friends. I've always found friends, as trying to lead me into doing things they like only. Friends can be very bossy and controlling. And seem to always put in there 2 cents worth even if it's not wanted!

No one can decide for you if you need or want friends and no one should judge you on not having friends either! That would be your choice and only your choice! If you feel you have no room in your life for a friend or more friends because you want to take that road to success with out interference, I hear where your coming from!

I have had a couple of friends. Well I thought they were friends!

And I decided, I do just fine in life on my own, I do have many acquaintances, but none that I would consider a friend! I guess I have a wall up, since being burned from a couple long time friends and I had decided I wouldn't allow myself to get into a situation where friendship could grow! I just like my life without friends, I feel it is not a necessity for me in my life!

Answer 4

Well that would largely depend what you consider successful. You could probably excel in the work place if you didn't have any friends, but is that really success in life?

I guess if your genuinely happy, then yes, but I doubt someone with NO friends would be very happy, being alone is so miserable in my opinion. So I personally would not consider it successful to have no friends, I mean theirs 3 billion people on this planet, if you can't find a few friends, somethings not right.

Answer 5

Honestly it all depends on what you wanna be successful at.

If it anything concerning business it is essential that you have good work relationships because it's who you know more than what you know.

But say if you run an online site or work on a computer all day, it really won't affect you.

If your not outgoing and are generally antisocial it's fine, just learn how too pretend not too be when need be such as at a company party etc

Answer 6

Depends on how you define success. Money? Yep, no need for friends. Happiness? No. Need some friends. Need lots of friends to be happy? No. Some very successful people do not have friends. But they are also very unhappy.

Answer 7

Of course you can. Success is not only defined by how many friends you have but by many other things in life. Cherish what you have and what makes you happy. Eventually, you may get friends. They will come when the time is right.

Answer 8

Yes you can, but who doesn't want a friend. We use the word "friend" loosely. It's hard to find a real friend today. When and if you find a real friend, you will want them to be in your life. Sometimes when we associate ourselves with people on our level or higher, we end up bettering ourselves. If you're alone, how do you really know you're successful if you don't have anything to compare it with.

Answer 9

Really depends on how you measure success. Be it that you subscribe to what other people call success or you have your own idea. Personally sucess for me is to be happy, a work in progress but yeah :)

Answer 10

Yes.

If you have no friends to bug you to go out with them all the time you have more time to put into what ever it is you want to be successful at.