user-1: I want help tracking down two discourses.
First discourse is where The Buddha is asked how long it takes to complete his training and he answers posing a counter question, then lists an amount of flawed qualities in a learner. It ends with him saying that if a disciple is of good quality the teaching can be reslized in 7 years... or in a day or so (this part similar to satipatthana sutta). I think this one is in the Anguttara Nikaya.
The second discourse i've heard claimed to list factors which lead to success in one's pursuit and the two;

Thinking about the thing one is developing
surrounding oneself with people who are into it

are included in that list iirc.
Thanks

user11009: "And what is meant by admirable friendship?
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sacca/sacca4/samma-ditthi/kalyanamittata.html

-1: <p>I want help tracking down two discourses.</p>
<p>First discourse is where The Buddha is asked how long it takes to complete his training and he answers posing a counter question, then lists an amount of flawed qualities in a learner. It ends with him saying that if a disciple is of good quality the teaching can be reslized in 7 years... or in a day or so (this part similar to satipatthana sutta). I think this one is in the Anguttara Nikaya.</p>
<p>The second discourse i've heard claimed to list factors which lead to success in one's pursuit and the two;</p>
<ul>
<li>Thinking about the thing one is developing</li>
<li>surrounding oneself with people who are into it</li>
</ul>
<p>are included in that list iirc.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
 11009: <p>&quot;And what is meant by admirable friendship?</p>
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