Why Close Friendships Aren't Always Enough

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✔️ How we often misunderstand loneliness ✔️ Why one close friend can’t fill your social cup ✔️ The magic of the “neighborly nod” ✔️ The role of communities in social health Join 5,601 subscribers who are learning the art of community and human connection. Pledge your support You’ve read all the headlines. Loneliness is on the rise, it’s worse for you than cigarettes and obesity, it’s an epidemic, etc. It’s a problem that, if you’re reading this newsletter, you probably care about solving. But too often, we rush into solutions based on false assumptions. Assumptions like: “More connections = Better social health”. For example, many of us (myself included) fell in love with the idea that social media could help us connect with more people. But we didn’t yet understand how social media would change our habits and culture, and the deeper connections that social media would replace. Then there’s the other common assumption: “Deeper connections = Better social health”. To reduce your lonelin

Midjourney prompt: “a person at the center of a mindmap with branches going out to other people in the style of roy lichtenstein” Consider two people and how they spend their day: Person 1: Interacts with three close friends. Person 2: Interacts with one close friend, one family member, and one coworker. Which person do you think is happier at the end of the day (if all other factors are constant)? Researchers have found that, most likely, it’s person #2. Today we’re going to dive into why… ✔️ How we often misunderstand loneliness ✔️ Why one close friend can’t fill your social cup…

Why Close Friendships Aren't Always Enough

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