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180. The Secret to Making & Keeping Friends with Dr. Marisa G. Franco

We Can Do Hard Things

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Making Friends Is Not Antithetical to Making Friends

I think a lot of platonic is seeing ourselves as active agents in our social world. It's not that we just have to wait, I think introverts will say, for an extrovert to adopt me. Even though I'm an introvert, I can also make friends initiate with other people. So introversion is not antithetical to making friends and it's like you don't always have to just be the thermometer of the room. Like you cannot just read the temperature. You can warm up the temperature and change the rooms you're in. That is so good. Not the thermometer. I can be the thermostat. THAT is such a good way of putting

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