Loneliness and the Power of True Connection, feat. Justin Whitmel Earley [S07-011]
Typology
Ian Morgan Cron
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
As human beings we’re wired for connection – to be seen and known fully – yet loved anyway. When we lack this true connection, we begin to drift into a feeling of loneliness or isolation, both of which have been proven to impact our physical and mental health.
Today’s guest, Justin Whitmel Earley, explains the difference between social isolation and loneliness, then implores us to prioritize healthy, deep connections with others stating, “The difference between those of us who are persevering or getting crushed by life is whether or not you’re walking through life beside close friends, people who really deeply know you. Because we all experience hard things, we all experience suffering, we all have mental health struggles. But if you walk through it alone, you will be crushed.”
He also shares a few strategies we can all use to foster deep friendships from his new book, Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship.
I hope this episode encourages you to stop and take an inventory of your own connections.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, typology tribe. Welcome to typology, the show on which we explore the mystery of |
| 0:09.4 | the human personality and of the human adventure through the lens of the Anya Gram. We're on |
| 0:16.6 | the show today, of course, with my good friend producer Anthony Skinner. |
| 0:21.3 | Hey folks, Ian, good to be with you. Good to be with you my brother and today, so psyched |
| 0:29.4 | because we have on with us Anya Gram for it with a three-wing self-preservation for I might |
| 0:35.6 | add Justin Whitmore early author. Yes, indeed. Author of the new book, the brand new book made |
| 0:44.1 | for people why we dripped into loneliness and how to fight for a life of friendship. Justin, |
| 0:49.8 | welcome to typology. I am honored to be here. I have been following |
| 0:55.0 | your stuff for a long time, Ian, and my wife is really impressed that I get to talk to you. |
| 1:01.9 | So I'm going to be live texting her for her Anya Gram diagnosis on me while we talk. |
| 1:07.0 | Good. We'll continue. Just tell us more about how much you like us. Because as an Anya |
| 1:16.7 | Gram for, we are just a deep bottomless chasm of self-loathing. So we would appreciate |
| 1:22.5 | it if you just kept drilling down and filling us with the love that we didn't get as children. |
| 1:28.8 | Okay, moving on. I'm excited about it. I'll just have to say when we get to, we're going to get to |
| 1:33.1 | the book on the back half of the show, but I've been reading up on the book Justin and Ian and I |
| 1:40.3 | had a little conversation beforehand. We're excited to dig into that as well. So looking forward to it. |
| 1:45.2 | I'm excited too. I'm now, I have a theory about how all my writing is just this trajectory from |
| 1:52.0 | my Anya Gram types. But I want to find out if it's true or not. So I'm going to trust Ian |
| 1:57.0 | you to clarify that for me. Well, I mean, it's very interesting, right? I mean, we've had so many |
| 2:03.5 | authors on the show whose Anya Gram types are so revealed in the titles of their books. It's |
| 2:08.9 | unbelievable. Remember when we had, wasn't it like Annie Downs had a book about having fun and |
| 2:15.1 | she's an Anya Gram 7? Do you remember that? I was literally no lie about three days ago telling |
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