Welcome everybody to the Greg McHughan podcast. It's really a pleasure to have you to spend a little time with you as you're walking, maybe you're running even,

maybe you're driving to work or back from work, tidying up in the kitchen.

One thing that you certainly have in common with me and everybody else who's listening is you are in many relationships.

In fact in a certain way you're in more relationships now than probably anybody has ever been because of the advent of

social media that at least promises to connect us. But meanwhile at exactly the same time we're living in the

loneliest period perhaps in recorded history and the solution to that is

simply not going to be found in more shallow distant digital connections.

This is episode 3 in a series on fewer but deeper.

That is, how do we establish the kinds of relationships that can actually meet our need for connection,

our need to be known, to be seen, to be understood truly, to use those words from the classic book

Howard's End by E.M. Forster to connect.

That this matters to people is, I suppose, self-evident, but as we shall see in today's episode,

that's not always been true. It's not always been obvious, not always obvious even to the psychologists and the therapists.

Indeed, they taught something quite opposite.

By the end of today's episode, you will feel a renewed commitment to build deep

relationships, deep connection with the people who matter most to you and you will

have a key to being able to understand those closest relationships to you more clearly.

Let's get to it. So, Remember not to try and take this journey alone, this journey we're on together.

Go with someone.

Go with your partner, your spouse, your family, your closest friends, even your teammates at work.

Think about who you can share this with so that the conversation begins when the conversation in this

episode comes to an end.

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