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The Fruits of Friendship - David Perell
- Some social scientists and even philosophers suggest a different vision of friendship, in which friendship is conceived not as a ledger of emotional debits and credits but as an organic creation — an artwork — built by the friends themselves. Conceived in this way, friendships are not ranked or stratified along a bright line from BFF to near strang... See more
from The Vexing Problem of the ‘Medium Friend’ by Lisa Miller
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- 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 morefrom 3-2-1: On the bottleneck to achieving results, the discomfort of growth, and friendship by James Clear
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