Authenticity, empathy, and compassion are foundational skills for developing deep relationships and becoming a person friends can rely on during difficult times.

“I think it I think it's based on authenticity and empathy and compassion and I think we all have it I don't know that we all use it but I think deep relationships you mentioned earlier the people who have these wide range of friendships and in I want to correct these were not all good friends of mine that were on the list I don't want to these are all people who had significantly impacted my life that doesn't necessarily mean that they were my good friends I see many of them were the primary selection criteria was these people altered the course of your life and some of them might have been a professor in college well the the blind man in New Hampshire who me how to think I might have seen him 30 times in my life he would not be someone who's a friend yep I got it okay”