Skip to content

What Makes a Great Friend?

leowid.com
3 pointsLeonW1 comment
On HN

Comments

"I believe that this ability to listen deeply to someone else’s experience without adding any of one’s own ideas or thoughts is among the rarest gifts in today’s world"

This resonated. As someone who loves to give advice and recommendations to be 'helpful' (and so validate my presence) it's incredibly hard to just be with someone else's experience.

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.