To Aristotle, friends “are disposed toward each other as they are disposed to themselves: a friend is another self.” … Your brain is like a clever l… - Eric Barker

if that “monster” finds the right environment and succeeds, it might just end up changing the species for the better.

Traits like verbal fluency, adaptability, impulsivity, and humility are stable from childhood through adulthood.

Edith Wharton in the 1800s? “There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not as a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self.”

… In psychology it’s called “self-expansion theory” — that we expand our notion of our self to include those we’re close to.

… When women heard the names of their close friends, their gray matter responded the same way it did when they heard their own name.