Photo Credit: Jeremy Bishop – Unsplash Steven Bartlett pulled out a chart during an interview with Trevor Noah on a recent episode of The Diary of a CEO podcast . It showed friendship patterns across the lifespan—a line that rose through childhood and early career, then dropped sharply after our mid-twenties. Once we leave structured environments like school and early jobs, our social circles naturally contract. Year after year, the line descended. As I listened, a memory su