171 - How to Make Friends and Keep Them with Best-Selling Author Eric Barker
The Verywell Mind Podcast
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How to Deepen Friendships
The opposite of displaying high status, wo vulnerability. When we're a little more open with problems were having, fears we have. This is what deepens friendships. Most of the research on friendship shows it takes dozens or hundreds of hours of contact to produce a deeper relationship. But arthur aron teaches at stonybrook university. He managed to make people feel like lifelong friends in forty five minutes. And he did this by having them really open up, really ask deeper questions, answer deeper uestions. You knowit it's that difference which has profound effects.
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