386. The Power of Key Relationships, Community, and Networks with Eric Barker

The ONE Thing

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Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Loneliness is more than simply being alone. The quality, depth, and number of relationships you cultivate play a crucial role in living a fulfilling life. A supportive community and meaningful friendships are vital for a rich life experience, but also delicate. Eric Barker is a sought-after speaker and best-selling author of “Plays Well With Others.” In this interview, he delves into the significance of forming meaningful relationships. Eric shares practical tips for strengthening relationships and encourages us to think about our network and build a community that aligns with our aspirations. If your goal is to improve the relationships in your life, visit the1thing.com for tips on how to reach your goals and align them with your values. To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: the1thing.com/pods. We talk about: Debunking the common maxims of relationships What you can do to form more intentional relationships The dangers of loneliness and how to treat it Setting goals around relationship-building How to get better at detecting lies Links & Tools from This Episode Learn more at ericbarker.org Follow Eric on Twitter: @bakadesuyo Read: Plays Well With Others Read: Barking Up The Wrong Tree Free Resources Want to be a guest or share feedback? Email podcast@the1thing.com Mentioned in this episode: Factor 75 Head to FactorMeals.com/one50 and use code one50 to get 50% off. That’s code one50 at FactorMeals.com/one50 to get 50% off! Factor 75

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0:00.0	Hey everybody and welcome back to the One Thing Podcast, I'm Chris Dixon.
0:11.8	Loneliness can mean a whole lot more than just being alone.
0:14.6	Today, I spoke with Eric Barker and we talked about what it means to form powerful relationships.
0:20.1	Not only the quantity, but the quality and the depth of the relationships that you form.
0:25.2	Having a strong community, a powerful network, and deep meaningful friendships can be the
0:29.6	key to living a rich and fulfilling life.
0:32.1	Strong relationships are so important, and they're also very fragile.
0:35.6	And Eric shares with us how growing deeper relationships can in fact be quite simple.
0:39.5	And I hope you can take a lot of away from this conversation and think about some ways
0:42.6	that you can strengthen some of your key relationships, think more about your network, and build
0:47.4	a community that supports you and your goals.
0:50.6	Hey everybody, we've got Eric Barker on the podcast with us today and Eric has his
0:59.1	new book out plays well with others.
1:01.7	And in his book, he used some cool questions and answer some cool questions drawing on
1:06.0	science to reveal the truth beyond conventional wisdom about human relationships.
1:11.5	Combining his compelling story and humor, Barker explains what hostage negotiation techniques
1:17.8	and martial or excuse me, marital arguments have in common and how an expert con man lied
1:24.1	his way into a 20 year professional soccer career, and why holding views diametrically
1:30.6	opposed to our own actually have the potential to become our closest trusted friends.
1:36.0	I hope I did that justice and that's there's a lot to unpack, men, what a cool topic
1:42.7	to discuss.
1:43.7	So thanks for being here.
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