I think people who tend to gain personal power through other people and human relationships, benefit from stronger relationships with people, particularly people who have accomplished things they want to accomplish. People who are more self-centered will prefer to rely more on themselves and their learning abilities, and people who tend towards sociopathy will want to go it alone and even shun external relationships. Different strokes, everyone is different, and it's independent of addiction recovery, it's who we are. If a network-focused person wants to learn to paint, say, she'll join a painting class. A self-focused person would get a book and learn on her own. It's not binary, of course, there's a spectrum. There was an interesting interview with Tom Horvath on this topic, related to addiction recovery,
https://www.thefix.com/where-should-...-recovery-come, though he does seem to fall into the binary trap. In my experience, the people on the extremes tend to be the most vocal and certain, but most of us use some combination of "power sources", if you like, and would feel lost if we lost either our self-directing intellects or our human networks.