Summary of Glenda D. Shaw's Better You, Better Friends

By IRB Media

Get the Summary of Glenda D. Shaw's Better You, Better Friends in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: At her own birthday celebration, Glenda Shaw found herself questioning the friends and the friendships there to help her. It dawned on her that she did not feel truly connected to most of them. Something felt terribly wrong. She realized that what she shared with her birthday guests was proximity: they worked together, they lived close to each other, they went to the same networking events and movies. There were, however, other friends with whom she shared more fundamental qualities: the disposition of being encouraging to people, an attitude of looking for purpose in life, a spirit of adventure. Those were the friendships that meant something, the ones that felt truly deep and real.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Dec 6, 2021
• ISBN: 9781669341246

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The author’s birthday celebration was missing one person: her father, who had abandoned her and her mother when she was a young girl. She was ashamed to tell anyone at the restaurant that her father was missing.

#2

She had many friends through the years, and while some were trustworthy, others were not. She had a difficult time trusting anyone after her father died in a car accident when she was 14.

#3

The author was working on a TV show, and one of her friends kept showing up late, even though they’d agreed to meet at a restaurant. She realized that she was also late in dealing with the friend crisis she’d been facing.

#4

When the author’s friends threw her a surprise birthday party, she was shocked to see how unappreciative they were of her. It took her a long time to realize that this was a gift in disguise, and it taught her to be a better friend.

#5

The author realized that she wasn’t thriving, and that’s why she created her own Friendship Program.