Friend of a Friend by David Burkus

I first got connected with David Burkus late in 2018 when I saw a few articles of his and then, his book. After looking at some of his content, I was excited to read this book and learned a lot from it. Personally, I’ve always known that even if I’ve fallen out of touch with someone as long as they’re a good person and we last spoke on good terms, I’m there to support them.

When people are looking for advice, we tend to ask the same people time and time again. However, with all of today’s technology, it’s easier to communicate with someone we haven’t spoken with in a few years, why don’t we? Maybe we feel nervous or as if they wouldn’t want to talk to us. But if they called us, we would answer, wouldn’t we? At least as long as they haven’t burned a bridge and are still viewed in a positive light. The author shared the following,

Dormant ties — connections that haven’t been communicated with in over a year. Advice is shown to be more valuable, and provided more unexpected insight. More valuable than current connections

I highlighted the next part just because it was interesting to me and after some of the other books and research that I have read, it was not surprising in the slightest.

Water and lack of sanitation is responsible for 80% of all sickness on the planet.