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A NEW WAY TO MEET PEOPLE

Self-help books explaining how to improve your life all by yourself are bestsellers. However, Mayday! Asking

Others for Help in Times of Need is highly original: it explains how to overcome your shyness and get other peoples

help. ts author, !ora "laver, a successful business woman, was interviewed and said how she got the idea.

#his came to her when she reali$ed that she was successful, financially stable and travelling the world over, but the

people around her were more interested in taking from her than in giving back to her. %hen she became seriously ill,

the doctor said she needed an operation and someone to care for her during the week after the surgery. #hen she

called her boyfriend and told him she needed him to stay with her. #wo days before the operation, he left her. So,

she had no one to help her and reali$ed that she didnt want to live that way anymore and that she neededto find

friends and loved ones who would give her as much as she gives them. #hen she started focusing on this ideaof

asking for help as a way of meeting new people.

&merican society loves individual autonomy so much, it is part of it. 'ollowing the myth of the cowboy on the range,

everyone wants to prove that they are self-sufficient, that they can do it their own way. (ut its )ust * too difficult, its

exhausting and !ora doesnt believe that is the way people should live. She thinks we should livetogether in a

community and not as individuals all by ourselves.

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