How Do I Make Friends?

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I think social interaction can be incredibly daunting, but there are a few simple things. The first thing I encourage people to do if they want to make new friends is to do an audit of their existing life. We spend more of our life at work than we do anywhere else. If we're going to survive the kind of work culture we've got now, we need to have friends in that environment.

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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