He wanted to be close to others. Yitzchak is the antithesis of his father Avraham. Yitzchak represents limitation, staying within one's own borders. Yitzchak's quality is the quality of fear. Fear of making a spiritual error, an error which might blemish the entire universe.
Fear is about as un-PC now as possible.
But we all need a healthy dose of fear in order to live. A world without fear looks something like a natural history film of lemmings on holiday in Alaska. And Yaakov is the synthesis of his father, Yitzchak, and his grandfather Avraham. You get honor. You get respect.