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#294 - John Vervaeke - Creating A Life Of Meaning & Wisdom

Modern Wisdom

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You're Going to Lose Relationships

We call a lot of people our friends, but they're not. There are buddies. A budy is somebody you enjoy doing something with and you should have buddies. That's what we have this term. A friend is somebody that is committed to you becoming wiser, and you are committed to them becoming wiser. And that's a different thing entirely. And you will increase your chance of real friendship. So you might findi again, i can't promise you, there isn't an algorithm here, a magical formula,. But i have found, ad i've seen it in others, that you get a trade off in the quantity of relationships diminishes, whereas the quality of them improves.

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