| Thank you for sharing this reading experience. The diagram is ingenius. The inner three circles are unquestionable, but quite limited in number, hence most people we encounter daily fall in the outer three circles, where leave me a lot to wonder. 1. How does one assert that a friend to be lifelong, before he/she gains sufficient life experience. This circle might rather remain empty for a long period of time, since claiming so at a young age seems a little bit vain. 2. "Close business associates" comes inner than friends who shared experience and passion. Since business associates share profit, I wonder if the author regards profit of higher value that experience and passion. Or, rather, by the adjective "close", the author includes in it those share profit as well as experience and passion. In any case, there is no doubt that the author is trying to be pragmatic in this friend matter. 3. Given the shear difference in numbers between the inner and outer 3 circles, I wonder if we can infer that spending time with people in the outer circles is more or less a waste of our lives. In other words, how realistic is the model depicted by the drawing? |
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