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The good life requires two things, self-knowledge and friends – you can’t have one without the other

  • Written by Ross Channing Reed, Lecturer in Philosophy, Missouri University of Science and Technology
imageFriends can see and know you in ways that you yourself never can.Stephen Simpson/Stone via Getty Images

Friends can help us with all kinds of things in life. How could I forget moving that piano for friends in Chicago? Fortunately, none of us ended up in the ER.

One of the most important things friends do, though, might seem surprising: They help us...

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