Most friendship advice is craft: join a club, say yes, schedule recurring hangouts. Aristotle's three-level model — utility, pleasure, and virtue friendship — operates one layer up. It tells you how to hold yourself in relation to the people already in your life, not what to do on Tuesday night. Virtue friendships are rare, take years to build, and are the only kind worth centering; the other two are fine scaffolding that most people mistake for the real thing.
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