The Lost Art of Friendship, Part 2: Friendship Requires an Emotional Education
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"We are all in desperate need of an emotional education, the very thing capable of helping us nurture and strengthen the relational aspects of life, and let’s face it, more often than not it isn’t our failure to understand the philosophy of Nietzsche or Einsteinian principles of physics which sink our lives. What sinks us most often is our failure to navigate relationships, the emotional aspects of life, and yet we continue to neglect and diminish the need for an emotional education."
- The Lost Art of Friendship is a podcast series based on the article of the same name which can be found here.
- Part 1, the introduction, called The Pursuit of Love can be found here.
- The Concept of Emotional Education was borrowed from Alain de Botton and his book The School of Life, An Emotional Education
- My beginning with Emotional Education began long ago after reading the book Emotional Intelligence
- The best biography I have read about Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Education is Team of Rivals
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