Hey lazy geniuses, you're listening to the lazy genius podcast.

Here I'm going to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the

things that don't.

Today's episode, the lazy genius makes a friend.

Here is the pitch.

Making friends as an adult is terrifying, but it does not have to be terrifying.

So in the playbook, we're going to go through the three kind of phases of adult friendship.

Phase one, we're going to talk about people.

People are great, people are also weird, and so are we.

Phase two, saying hi, and phase three, hanging out.

So let's jump right in to phase one.

Okay, so people are great, people are also weird.

You are great.

You're also a little weird.

This is what makes this people, right?

But we go in to friendships or starting friendships, thinking that we have to be this perfect

person with all of our stuff together, no craziness, all the things.

And when we start to have a conversation with that mom in the park or that lady at book

club or the woman at church, don't you sometimes feel sort of zipped up?

I'm like, I really want to be myself right now, but I'm just a little nervous that if I

give her all of myself, my full self, then she's going to run away.

So the way that we kind of fight that is we need to know ourselves.

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