149. Is It Harder to Make Friends as an Adult?
No Stupid Questions
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🗓️ 11 June 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | No, really? |
| 0:04.6 | Men want to have friends. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Angela Duckworth. |
| 0:08.7 | I'm Mike Maun. |
| 0:09.8 | And you're listening to no stupid questions. |
| 0:13.3 | Today on the show, Angela talks to Mike Maun, |
| 0:16.2 | senior executive at Qualtrics, about how |
| 0:18.7 | to make friends as an adult. |
| 0:20.7 | People are kind of like, I'm good. |
| 0:22.8 | I don't want anybody else. |
| 0:24.2 | Mike Maun, I am honest girl from 0 to 10. |
| 0:34.4 | I want to say 11 in excitement to talk to you today about something that we both care |
| 0:40.8 | about, and that is friendship. |
| 0:43.0 | That is something we care about, and something that we have. |
| 0:45.5 | Exactly. |
| 0:46.5 | So, Minnie, who's one of our listeners, writes to us with the following question, I would |
| 0:52.8 | like to know if it becomes difficult to make close friends, not acquaintances, close |
| 0:58.4 | friends, as you grow older, especially in your 40s and beyond. |
| 1:03.6 | And by the way, Mike, Minnie says some other very friendly, positive things in her email |
| 1:08.5 | to us, but that's the part that I want to really focus on today. |
| 1:13.5 | This idea of making close friends, even in mid adulthood, it kind of is us. |
| 1:20.6 | I agree. |
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