Want More Friends? a Better Social Life? Be Like My 85-Year-Old Buddy Gerry
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This assumes everyone is the same. The detachment philosophy of the Buddhist/ Epictetus/Stoics emerged for a reason. It has lasted in one form or another for thousands of years - https://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-181/lecture-8
Horses for courses.