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friendships as vehicles for aspiration

Comments - Stop trying to have "interesting" friends Nonlinear Subscribe Sign in 4 Comments ⭠ Return to thread James Rogers Apr 19, 2023 Edited Liked by Eli Qian This is a very good piece. I would agree that if you index for aspirational friends you would likely be happier in the long run. Having a myopic view of almost transactional friendship can easily leave you totally alone if they have the same kind of loose ties/ambition centric value system. On a high-level note how do you view ambition though and cultivating it? You are constantly in flux/changing in terms of your values, who you are,

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