ByParul Somani,
Forbes Books Author.
We overestimate the role of self-discipline in personal change and underestimate the role of friendship. The right friends do more than comfort us through uncertainty. They help us become honest about the changes we keep postponing.
In the summer of 2019, I went to Jennifer Lopez’s fiftieth birthday concert with three friends. They were all close to me, but from different chapters of my life, so they didn’t really know each other. Over dinner before the show, the conversation drifted into territory none of us expected: career transitions. Each of us was standing at the edge of a change we hadn’t quite made yet.
What most stuck with me afterward wasn’t the concert. It was the dinner.
