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We don’t start conversations because we’re bad at predicting how much we’ll enjoy them. We underestimate how much others want to talk; we underestimate how much we will learn; we underestimate how quickly other people will want to go deep and get personal.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“the soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude.” ~ Emerson
William Deresiewicz • “Solitude and Leadership”
Remember what Emerson said: “Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.”