7Declutter Your Friendships
We have three types of friends in life: friends for a reason, friends for a season and friends for a lifetime.
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How many friends and acquaintances do you have? What type of friends are they? More than two thousand years ago, the Greek philosopher Aristotle identified three different kinds of friendship: friendships of utility, friendships of pleasure and friendships of virtue.
Friendships of utility are friendships of mutual benefit: one way or another, the relationship is useful to both you and the other person. That person could be a colleague, customer or client or, for example, a neighbour with whom you exchange each other's gardening or household tools, feed the cat and check each other's houses ...
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