What up team? It's episode 362 of The Genius Life. What's cracking everybody?

What's cracking everybody? Welcome to another episode of the show.

I'm your host Max Lugavir, a filmmaker health and science journalist in New York Times best-selling

author. I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind how our choices, including what we eat and how we live,

affect our cognitive and physical performance, how we feel, our health span and our risk for disease.

This podcast is all about how to live in that optimal state, which I call living like a genius.

On this episode of the show, I'm super excited to introduce you to my new friend Adam Lane Smith.

Adam is the man leveraging years of professional experience as a licensed psychotherapist.

He has honed his craft as a highly sought after attachment specialist and personal coach.

Adam believes that repairing the way that we learn to give and receive love is the best antidote

to loneliness, hopelessness, and heartbreak.

Throughout his work, he leverages the power of attachment theory.

Attachment theory is a field of clinical psychology that defines the patterns of our

connections with other people, particularly

in emotionally significant relationships.

They're formed in early childhood based on our interactions with primary caregivers and they

set the blueprint for how we perceive and engage love,

self-worth, and emotional attachment throughout our lives.

In our conversation, which I'm sure is going to be the first of many, Adam discusses the lack of success in dating for both men and women.

He's going to share why it's the case that so many people are simply not taught

how to give and receive love consistently in relationships, leading to struggles and believing

their partner will be fair and meet their needs.

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