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How To Live the Good Life - Lessons From The Longest Study On Happiness | Dr. Robert Waldinger

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

CHAPTER

The Art of Don't Come Near Me

Bob Greene: My wife has mastered the art of don't come near me. She says, if I make eye contact with somebody, I know they're coming over. And so she got to the point where she's like, I just don't like how this feels. It's too taxing to manage the social bit for her. This comes out of a group at the University of Chicago. John Casiopo and his wife did some research on this. They find other people see lonely people as not wanting contact.

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