Susan Cain on the bittersweet & introducing How We Live Now
How We Live Now with Katherine May
The Importance of Casual Social Contact
"I kind of felt like my social needs were met. I did not really mind the disappearance of social life because I happened to be living in a family unit," she says. "It was about casual social contact that I missed the most, just the kind of quick conversations at the school gate or, you know, bumping into a friend and saying, do you want a quick coffee?" She adds: "That for me had really big creative implications."
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