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A comment on Ask HN: Best books on “friendship” and how to make/maintain friends?.

Re:Ask HN: Best books on “friendship” and how to make/mainta... by rasyadi on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @09:53AM (#25847076)
Do you need a book for that? Why not just be nice and trustworthy to your existing friends and strangers?

The books like How to Win Friends and Influence People: Dale Carnegie and 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Stephen Covey show you how to be nice.

In Covey's book, he explain about habits 4, 5, 6 which are think win-win, seek first to understand, than to be understood, and synergize. These are interpersonal habits that can be applied to most of common situations.

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Re:Ask HN: Best books on “friendship” and how to make/mainta... by llampx on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @10:01AM (#25847168)
> Do you need a book for that? Why not just be nice and trustworthy to your existing friends and strangers?

Being nice and trustworthy only has a tangential relationship to having friends. Plenty of not-nice people have lots of friends. I think it is fair to ask for book recommendations, and asking for books doesn't mean one has no friends. Betterment of the self is a worthy pursuit.

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