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I think your connection only really can get super deep when you are able to open up those layers

of yourself by getting to know yourself and then you can share

them with another person and see how you can better harmonize together.

So when they curator of the longest running study on human flourishing, the Grant study was asked

if there was any one factor that most contributed to a life well lived.

His answer was clear. Love, full stop. In no small way, love makes a life. And we're not talking romantic love only. We're also talking about the love you have for family or chosen family or for those kind of friends who make you

feel seen and heard and held or for those you're in community with who share a set of common

bonds and maybe less obviously for those you don't even know but somehow find a place

of compassion for that changes both them and you often in ways you never saw coming.

But in this day and age, these different kinds of love, they tend to feel more complicated,

maybe less available and for many less accessible and easy to actually embrace.

So today we're bringing you a very special episode, drawing upon

the deep wisdom of five past guests, each experts in the space of love and

relationships and self-discovery, to share sometimes provocative, unique, and valuable insights

about how to love and be love, how to hold relationships with curiosity and allow room for growth,

how to create a society-wide container for

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