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Friendships Form via Shared Context, Not Shared Activities
embeds us within the wider community.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
When I think of you, I think of community. You’re so devoted to uplifting the voices of others. Can you talk about this impulse in yourself?
What I'm devoted to is the idea that a brain is really the result of its connections to other brains. A life is really the result of its connection to other lives. So we’re the sum of our connections. Those co... See more
What I'm devoted to is the idea that a brain is really the result of its connections to other brains. A life is really the result of its connection to other lives. So we’re the sum of our connections. Those co... See more
Jane Ratcliffe • Rally a Posse: A Conversation With Austin Kleon
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
Culturally and collectively, we have made a momentous mistake which has left us both lonelier and more disappointed than we ever needed to be. In a better world, our most serious goal would be not to locate one special lover with whom to replace all other humans but to put our intelligence and energy into identifying and nurturing a circle of true
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