How To Be Lonely

How To!

Slate Magazine

Business, Education, How To, Self-improvement

4.4 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Paula has a big family, lots of friends, and a girlfriend she adores. For most of her life, however, she has experienced an underlying and unshakeable sense of loneliness. On this episode of How To!, Courtney Martin brings on Kristen Radtke, the writer and illustrator behind Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness, to talk with Paula about an emotion that’s hard to talk about—and even harder to confront. If you liked this episode, check out How To Find Your People and How To Survive a Silent Retreat. Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen. How To! is produced by Rosemary Belson, with Kevin Bendis. Joel Meyer is our senior editor/producer. Derek John is our executive producer. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now at slate.com/howtoplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.3	If there's anything I did to reduce my own loneliness, it was understanding how universal it is and how extraordinary the capacity for misunderstanding is around loneliness and around what we need from each other.
1:16.0	Welcome to How To, I'm Courtney Martin.
1:19.0	We're living in a moment of paradox.
1:22.0	Right now, we're the most connected we've ever been.
1:25.0	And yet, rates of loneliness are dangerously high.
1:29.0	According to a recent poll from the American Psychiatric Association, 30% of adults in the United States
1:35.3	report feeling lonely at least once a week. 10% report feeling lonely every single day.
1:41.6	So here's this human experience that's so common, I mean
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