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15 Jan 2020 Conversations with Tyler Reid Hoffman on Systems, Levers, and Quixotic Quests
“I would say that people most commonly misunderstand about friendship that they think that it’s strict loyalty to the other person.”
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- Reid Hoffman
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- 15 Jan 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…What do other people most commonly misunderstand about friendship? I would say that people most commonly misunderstand about friendship that they think that it’s strict loyalty to the other person. So if you ask most people about friendship, they would say, “Well, I’m loyal to Bob or to Sue.” And actually, in fact, I think what you are is loyal to the person’s aspirational better self. For example, you discover your friend is a serial murderer. Are they still your friend? “Oh, no, no, I’ll help hide the body.” It’s like, “No, no, of course not.” It’s who they are in the world and what they’re doing that’s actually, in fact, where the loyalty should lie. If God does not exist, where does the mystical indeed come from? Why not just bring God into the picture?…
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