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samshimo
, July 03, 2011
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"Friendshifts" is an incredibly helpful guide to understanding, initiating, maintaining, and enhancing friendship in all aspects of one's life, be it in work, school, family, neighborhood, or just life in general. It is well organized, always intriguing, and very easy to understand. In addition to the author's explicit findings, specific quotes and compelling real-life examples are given, helping one to determine how this friendship information can be applied to one's own life and therefore aid one in enriching one's relationships and life. I myself have been attempting to bounce back from an ended close friendship by building relationships with as many people as I can; however, I have begun to notice and understand, thanks to "Friendshifts," that I cannot expect to cultivate the same kind of close friendship that recently ended in the kind of time frame I want--friendships, especially close or best ones, usually take at least a few years to build trust and a shared history. Friendship, as such a significant and influencing force in everyone's life, is a subject that anyone can gain from understanding better--and there is no better book to acquire this knowledge than through Jan Yager's "Friendshifts."
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