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The secret to making new friends as an adult (w/ Marisa G. Franco)

How to Be a Better Human

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The Qualities of Secure Friends

There's a popular excerpt from your book that you shared in The Atlantic where you talked about the concept of super friends. So what makes someone a super friend and how can we all strive to be super friends? Yeah, secure friends, aka super friends, these people are secure with themselves. They don't have to try to use other people as a tool to fulfill their sets of self or to help them escape threatening emotions or feelings.

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