Making Friends Is Not Antithetical to Making Friends

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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

1. Practical ways to make a friend and become what Dr. Franco calls a “Super-friend.”

2. How to address issues with a friend even if you hate conflict.

3. Why expressing anger is more likely to deepen a relationship than destroy it.

4. How we need to express vulnerability to make friends – but first, what the hell is vulnerability?

5. Destroying the unhelpful myth that friendship happens organically.

About Dr. Franco:

Dr. Marisa G Franco is psychologist, international speaker, and New York Times bestselling author known for digesting and communicating science in ways tha change their lives. She works as a professor at The University of Maryland and authored the New York Times bestseller Platonic: How The Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends.

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