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Understanding how dissonance operates helps us rethink our own muddles, and it’s also a useful skill for helping friends and relatives get out of theirs.
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307 |
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You can be the one who says the truths that need to be said – to power, to the world, to a friend.
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220 |
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Sometimes our lance must be broken against the shield. Sometimes we must be willing to go all the way. We must be willing to lose the job, lose the client, lose our good standing, break from our friends, make the sacrifice.
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247 |
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Who we spend time with matters. If the people you’re currently surrounding yourself with, either at home or at work, aren’t helping you get where you need to go, then you need to find some new friends as soon as possible.
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163 |
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If your friend is pursuing something that makes them come alive, encourage them to keep going – even it that thing is Han Solo or Gandalf.
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177 |
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Most of what people really want in life – love, friendship, respect, family, standing, fun – is not priced and does not pass through the market.
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177 |
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We’re friends with the people we do things with, as much as we are with the people we resemble.
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035 |
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Sprinkled among every walk of life… are a handful of people with a truly extraordinary knack of making friends and acquaintances.
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041 |
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The traits that foreigners both detest and adore in us – our informality, friendliness, instability, and restlessness – owe much to the idea of movement… – George Pierson
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100 |
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When you base your relationships… on who owes who what, that’s not being a friend. That’s being a creditor.
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067 |
