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Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Why Your Friends Are More Important Than You Think
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…science has clarified the definition of a quality relationship. It has to have these minimum three things: It’s a stable, longstanding bond; it’s positive; and it’s cooperative—it’s helpful, reciprocal, I’m there for you, you’re there for me.
Friends represent a source of help and support when we need it, as well as providing a group of people who are willing to give up their time (and perhaps even money) to socialise with us.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
people are only likely to make the effort to help you if they are already your friend.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
the most obvious is the fact that friends are willing to help us out when we are in need not just of emotional support but also of more mundane things like help with moving house or the loan of money or tools.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Friendships depend on you investing enough time and effort in each other to keep the relationship well-oiled and functional.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
core of relationships that remain surprisingly stable across much of the lifespan. These are those very close family and friends that provide us with emotional and social support and who,
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Friendships, on the other hand, typically involve less intimacy, so they have less far to fall.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Poet David Whyte on friendship:
“The dynamic of friendship is almost always underestimated as a constant force in human life: a diminishing circle of friends is the first terrible diagnostic of a life in deep trouble: of overwork, of too much emphasis on a professional identity, of forgetting who will be there when our armored personalities run into... See more
“The dynamic of friendship is almost always underestimated as a constant force in human life: a diminishing circle of friends is the first terrible diagnostic of a life in deep trouble: of overwork, of too much emphasis on a professional identity, of forgetting who will be there when our armored personalities run into... See more
James Clear • 3-2-1: On the bottleneck to achieving results, the discomfort of growth, and friendship
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