Ericson's new book is called The Power of Questions. In it, he explains how a list of questions can make people feel like lifelong friends in just forty five minutes. He says that when the research was first done, two assistants who were working on the project with him actually fell in love and got married. Eric: "It shows what is this per so value?"
Eric Barker is not a people person. “Getting me to write a relationship book,” he says, “is like asking Godzilla to improve the infrastructure in your city.” But he did it anyway. Guided by leading social psychologists, Eric went on a journey to understand what he was getting wrong about relationships — and what he could do to turn things around. The result is “Plays Well With Others,” a guide to friendship, intimacy, loneliness, and belonging that our curator Daniel Pink says will “revitalize your life.”
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Check out Eric’s blog, “Barking Up the Wrong Tree”
Try out Arthur Aron’s intimacy building questions
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