The Friendship Cure, Is This What You're Talking About?

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"I think our Stottle, you know, all those centuries ago said that friendship was made out of going through hardship together. So that's precisely why I wrote the book and precisely why I'm so sort of adamantly speaking about the subject," he says. "We cannot afford as a species to deprioritize it or to let it kind of drift as we get distracted with different parts of our life."

On this episode, we welcome journalist Kate Leaver to talk about her new book The Friendship Cure in which she explores the crippling, damaging, life-threatening impact of loneliness and the severe mental health impacts of living a life disconnected from a support network of close contacts. But...there is a cure...learning how to connect with others and curate better friendships.

In the interview we talk about loneliness, how to make friends, the difference between male and female friendship, platonic friendships, friends with benefits and lots, lots, more.

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