Book description
'Fascinating...In essence, the number and quality of our friendships may have a bigger influence on our happiness, health and mortality risk than anything else in life save for giving up smoking' Guardian, Book of the Day
Friends matter to us, and they matter more than we think. The single most…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Friends as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I learned about Robin Dunbar’s work many years ago with his book about Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language.
The deep thoughts and ideas stuck in my mind and they come back to me from time to time in my own work. After a chance meeting with the author, I discovered that he’d written an update on his famous work around the Dunbar Number and the scaling of groups in the animal kingdom.
This book was a fascinating romp through the dynamics of social systems with many new memorable teachings.
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