Yo, today's QOT is The Secret to Making Friends is showing people that you like them.

Here we go. Welcome back to the quote of the day show.

I'm your host, Sean Croxon and Sean Croxon.com.

We got a brand new speaker on the show today.

Her name is Dr. Marissa Franco.

And as I mentioned at the end of yesterday's episode, this is a very important discussion to be having, making friends.

Like, how do you make friends?

Why is it so hard to make friends?

These days, people are lonelier than they've ever been before. People have less close friends than they've ever had before, especially men.

And we need to have more conversation around this, like, why is it this way? And also, how are we

involved in the difficulty, like our thoughts, our beliefs, how are our thoughts and our beliefs and our expectations involved in this difficulty when it comes to making new friends, especially as adults. As adults, it's really hard to make new friends. I moved from San Diego, where I had been for

25 years, and, you know, had established relationships there, moved to Scott Steele, didn't know

anybody really, and I was not prepared for the process of making new friends. You know, I wasn't

prepared to, like, go out by myself and, you know,

strike up conversations and be like, hey, bro, can I get your phone number so we can hang out

and do this again? Like, I just, I wasn't ready for that. That's a whole brand new thing.

And then moving to Dallas, you know, ever so briefly before I came back to Scottsdale,

like I had zero friends in Dallas.

Like I didn't know anybody out there. And it was just like, what do I do? Where do I go? It's not

basketball season right now. So there's no reason for me to go down to the bar and, you know,

drink by myself without a game being all. Like, what do I do here? And so, you know, I can go to the gym, but people don't really talk to each other at the gym.

They just have their headphones on and just kind of focused on what they're doing.

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