How to Be a Great Friend, Para-Social Relationships, and Why You Shouldn't Die Alone

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Podcast

Mark Manson

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The quality of your life often comes down to the quality of the relationships you have. That’s why we’re giving a huge f*ck about friendship this week.

While the benefits of having good friends are pretty obvious, the cost of maintaining friendships is often overlooked by a lot of people. We dive into that, plus some advice on when you should and shouldn’t cut off people in your life, and how friends and romantic partners really impact our happiness.

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Here’s the paper we discuss: People perceive parasocial relationships to be effective at fulfilling emotional needs

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0:00.0	I think I know my Halloween costume Drew.
0:02.6	We were just joking about it before we went live.
0:05.6	I think I'm going to be a Winsock.
0:07.4	Go stand in front of a car dealership.
0:09.0	You got the frame for it, yeah.
0:10.2	You know, since I lost all the weight, I'm like shockingly like it's gonna blow you around.
0:15.2	Yeah, yeah. You know what I did last year? So I had this giant broccoli costume that we used for one of the
0:21.2	YouTube videos. Yeah, and I put that on and I looked absolutely absurd just this massive like two meter tall broccoli walking around and what I really wanted to do because we get in our neighborhood here we get a lot of kids coming to the
0:34.0	house I tried to convince Fernando to do this I was like I want you to cook a ton of
0:39.2	broccoli so like instead of like giving the kids candy, no you didn't.
0:44.0	What we'll do is I'll like I'll open the doors a giant broccoli and then I'll hand them a giant plate
0:49.6	full of broccoli.
0:51.0	And I thought this was hysterical. I was like this is too fun.
0:55.0	Like we're gonna record this that's gonna be it's gonna go viral on Tik-talk.
0:58.7	Anyway, she beat that.
1:00.8	You didn't even try it.
1:01.6	My broccoli dreams were destroyed in the cradle.
1:04.1	Well, they never, maybe this year.
1:06.2	You would have traumatized some kids.
1:07.6	I think you better not do that.
1:10.9	There's still hope, Drew.
1:12.0	There's still hope. It's like that's as bad as like hanging out
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