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Hey Olivia! Hey, what's up?

So we're trying to make better friends, huh?

Yes, always, please tell me how.

Okay, well, to get that, I want to talk about the different kinds of friends we have because

for eons we've been grouping friends into different categories, and someone who's done a really

interesting job of that is Aristotle.

Aristotle, wow, okay, we're going there.

So he really made me rethink a lot of my relationships in the way

he categorized friends, which are in three groups, utility, pleasure, and the good.

Ooh, tell me more.

Friends of utility are people whose friendship makes life easier.

A lot of our coworkers probably fit into this category, but so might that

barista you're friendly with who might give you free coffee sometimes. Maybe the neighbor who

feeds your cat? Totally. or the bus driver who will slow the bus down when you're running to catch it.

The best bus drivers do that, yes.

The second group is Friends of pleasure.

These are friends that you have fun with

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