21: Friends and Friendship

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MYIfV4N67sk Dima and Slava host Karyna Koreiba (https://www.instagram.com/koreiba/) and they talk about the ways people become friends, power of small groups, and mock articles that call on us to be open. * Donald Rumsfeld's phrase "There are unknown unknowns"(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_unknown_unknowns) * Book "Crossing the Chasm" was written by Geoffrey W. Moore. Andy Grove (3rd CEO of Intel) wrote a book called “Only the Paranoid Survive” * Karyna's year of friendship * Levels of friendship: acquaintance -> casual friend -> close friend -> intimate friend * Difference definitions of "friend" and "friendship" in different cultures * There is a research published that suggests it takes around 200 hours with a person to form a close a relationship * "The Art of Sunday" and "Wednesday Coffee" "Be open. Don't be afraid." * How Aspen format overcome insecurities we all develop as we go through life * Going out to find new friends and reaching out to people are not always easy, but often are so worth it * Relationships vs. networking