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Mike Cook, author of the book Thrive, says the ability to work well with other people, creating that interdependence, is not something we're all necessarily good at.

I find that in many cases people really don't embrace interdependency - they brace against interdependency. Meaning they work with other people not because they see that as the pathway to larger, bigger, better things, they work with people because they have to.

Many of us don't like the idea that we really need people.

And the truth of the matter is that we all need each other, unless we scale our lives back to such a small degree that whatever it is that we want, we can do by ourselves and that's not a very big life.

And Mike says to need other people is not the same thing as being needy.

I think needy is where I'm not really offering you anything in exchange, what I'm saying to you is, "You've got to help me because I'm just helpless." The sort of thing that I'm talking about where it's "need", my approach there to life is to say, "Well of course I need but so do you, so let's talk about what we can do for each other and both get what we want."

At somethingyoushouldknow.net I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.