How to be a Friend (In an Unfriendly World): Lessons on Connection

From the Inside Flap

In How to Be a Friend (In An Unfriendly World), award-winning filmmaker, author,and lecturer, Barnet Bain, takes you on a deeply insightful exploration of friendship: what it is, what it can be, what it means, and what it can create for you and the people in your life. Bain draws on a lifetime of leadership and experience as he guides you through eye-opening new ways to approach friendship, demonstrating how to be the kind of friend you would want to have for yourself. You’ll learn how to experience life more fully and more wholeheartedly making peace with your past, embracing your present, and reimagining your potential and your future. You’ll also discover why friendship is a pathway to a rejuvenating place that can help us restore and reconcile us with the world. How to Be a Friend (In An Unfriendly World) shows you how the walls of separation between us were built and why they contribute to a natural―but unhealthy and punishing―drive to judge, blame, and compete with others. It explains how unresolved hurt, pain, and fear can cause that wall to grow ever higher and fuel a never-ending cycle of loneliness and disconnection. Finally, the author unpacks the critical importance of awareness, an extraordinary tool for transformation that’s available to all of us. Perfect for everyone ready to rise above the division, hostility, and isolation that define so many of our interactions with one another, this book is your key to building meaningful, unbreakable friendships that nurture and fulfill. It’s a timeless resource packed with straightforward and truthful insights that apply to us all.

From the Back Cover

In How to Be a Friend (In An Unfriendly World), award-winning filmmaker, author,and lecturer, Barnet Bain, takes you on a deeply insightful exploration of friendship: what it is, what it can be, what it means, and what it can create for you and the people in your life. Bain draws on a lifetime of leadership and experience as he guides you through eye-opening new ways to approach friendship, demonstrating how to be the kind of friend you would want to have for yourself.