Is There a Loneliness in the World?

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For the vast majority of human existence, we had no choice but to be in communities. It's only in the nineteenth century where industrial revolution allowed us to live apart. The advent of t v replaced those kind of deeper social connections with parosocial relationships that became sort of this replacement. And i don't want to be one of these doomsayers who's like, oh, social media is awful and terrible. You know? No, i've done,. i've been so busy with all this book stuff, and i'm working on some grunt work and i'll put on a broadcast I should have already listened to an episode over. We're not imbedded in groups

Eric Barker is not a people person. “Getting me to write a relationship book,” he says, “is like asking Godzilla to improve the infrastructure in your city.” But he did it anyway. Guided by leading social psychologists, Eric went on a journey to understand what he was getting wrong about relationships — and what he could do to turn things around. The result is “Plays Well With Others,” a guide to friendship, intimacy, loneliness, and belonging that our curator Daniel Pink says will “revitalize your life.”

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Check out Eric’s blog, “Barking Up the Wrong Tree”

Try out Arthur Aron’s intimacy building questions

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