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Chapter Eight The Second Principle: Jumping Across Worlds
When your relationships with other people are built on cooperation, trust, and appreciation, you have the tantalizing possibility of undertaking extraordinary endeavors and Glowing. However, it’s not just your relationships with your closest colleagues that are so crucial. Think more broadly of the vast cloud of acquaintances, friends, and friends of friends who surround you. Recent estimates suggest that in modern societies, many adults have thousands of acquaintances, of which about one hundred can be contacted immediately to help out. Of these hundreds of acquaintances, you probably keep in regular contact with about twenty people, of whom perhaps three are close confidants. So ...
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