426: The Importance of Friendship with Lydia Denworth

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🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Importance of Friendship

with Lydia Denworth
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I spent six weeks in March and April of this year in a fairly strict lockdown in Barcelona, and then two weeks in May completely housebound in Germany. COVID-19 has affected every single aspect of my life both for good and bad.

What about you? Were you on lockdown?

If so, who did you call? Who did you turn to (virtually) for help? If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s taught us that humans are social beings through to our core. Even the most introverted types (like me) have felt the longing for group gathering, social interaction, and connection with friends.

But what is a true friend? And how does that change from your teen years into adulthood, middle age and beyond? From an adaptive perspective, why is it that strong friendships are correlated with longevity and overall healthspan? On this week’s podcast, we’ll explore the importance and science behind deep social connections.

Listen & Learn:

Why you really only need one true friend (but more are great too)
How digital and long-distance friends stack up to old-fashioned, in-person connections
Why true friendships should be long-lasting, stable, and cooperative
How to embrace the natural change of friends at different stages of life

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ABOUT OUR GUEST

Lydia Denworth is a science journalist and contributing editor for Scientific American. She writes the Brain Waves blog for Psychology and her work is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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0:00.0	I'm sure that you've heard the saying that the quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships.
0:10.0	I think this is very true and if you go to any bookseller and you start looking around for relationship books
0:16.4	You'll find romantic relationship dating marriage family all of these titles hundreds of titles of titles, and you'll find hardly any books about friendship, but friends are very very important relationships that many of us neglect, especially as we get older.
0:32.0	Self-reported data, most people over the age of 40
0:35.8	report having just one real friend. Now, one friend can be enough. It can definitely
0:40.4	be enough, but what if that friend dies? What you die what if you move away what if things change
0:44.9	We need to spend more time thinking about friendship 20 has been a funky year a really bizarre year and it's forced most of us to re-evaluate the people in our life, the work in our life, how we spend our time and I think this is a really relevant topic for most of you listening.
1:00.5	It certainly has been for me. a crisis happens who do you call
1:03.8	was there anybody to call do you need to get better friends you need to deepen the
1:07.2	friendships that you have on this week's podcast we'll be chatting about friendship if you're new here
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