Hey there you're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I am Kendra Adachi and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today is episode 361, the two missing pieces

pieces and conversations about friendship. Friendship is one of those topics that

will never run dry, no matter your level of extroversion or introversion, your age, your life stage, or any other factor,

we all need friends.

We are wired for connection in some way.

Now you might have read that longitudinal study that came out of Harvard a while back that showed how true this is.

The researchers determined with pretty much like zero doubt that the most important quality to a good life is relationships, connected, meaningful relationships.

This topic is as human and as necessary as it gets.

Now why am I talking about it?

I do

I think that one of the reasons we struggle to find and maintain

meaningful relationships is partly a logistical one.

It's tough to find time to align calendars to create rhythms of relationship

and our busy lives.

And yet finding time to connect with people

is just as important, if not more important than

finding time to pay bills and cook your meals and tend to your job and your home and

all the things that we do tend to talk about here on the podcast. So today I want to explore two aspects that are

often missing in conversations about friendship. The first is the levels of

friendship and how our expectations often ignore those levels.

And then the first thing, we'll set up the second thing, so we'll get to the second thing in a bit.

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