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16: Practical Ideas for Adult Friendships

Now We're Getting Somewhere

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How to Deepen a Friendship

A big chunk of the factors that cause the deepening to happen are beyond your control. The two most important levers for deepening a friendship are intimacy and consistency. If you want to have close friends, you will have to start with friendly acquaintances. You can't radically ramp up the consistency without intimacy or radically increase the intimacy without the consistency.

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