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RE: You can only have 150 friends ever. It has been proven !
Family and friends make the WORST business partners. The best partners are ones that you network with at professional meetings. You share the same background knowledge while you both may bring totally different things to the table. I wonder if the 150 person rule applies to both personal and professional spheres, or if you can have 150 in one and 150 in the other?
That is a good question. I will have to put some thought into it, but my gut feel is that it includes all.
Well, you can have two standalone personality :-) But you will need so much of processing power! I think you don't!
The number 150 represents about how many emotional connections a person can have. A person can memorize the names and faces in the thousands (citation needed and the human brain is quite remarkable), but to actually be aware of and to personally know others on an emotional/deep level is limited.
So, to put in my 2 cents, 150 people that you actually know, and however many movie stars, pop stars, business folk, and whoever else depending on how well your memory functions (improved with use of a memory palace, i.e. method of loci).
As an introvert, I would crush under the weight of 150 emotional connections! :)