The Age of Loneliness with Smiley Poswolsky
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Smiley Poswolsky, author of Friendship in the Age of Loneliness, joins Ilana on Seeing Other People to discuss human connection in today’s society and culture. Smiley shares his research and knowledge on opening your world up to new people, digging deeper with the people that you know, using technology to foster more meaningful connections, and more. He gives advice on maintaining friendships when you or a friend gets into a new relationship, what to do when your friend’s new significant other is bringing them down, and how to be a good friend to someone going through heartbreak or a difficult time.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:08.0 | Hey guys, it's Alana and there goes my AirPod. Welcome back to seeing other people. |
| 0:13.6 | Wow. No one could see that, but my AirPods just fell out. Oh my God. The other day I was getting on the train from home back to the city. |
| 0:22.9 | It's like a 45 minute train that I take super easy. |
| 0:25.6 | I don't mind it at all. |
| 0:26.4 | I actually have gotten so much work done on the train. |
| 0:29.0 | And I was sitting waiting for the train as it was delayed. |
| 0:31.8 | And I was doing a little work. |
| 0:32.9 | And then put my laptop in my bag, stood up to get ready to get on the train because it was coming in |
| 0:39.4 | like a minute and a half. And of course, I hear something fall and of course my AirPods case |
| 0:45.2 | was on my lap and fell right onto the tracks. And this was like a brand new AirPods pro case that I got |
| 0:51.0 | last week. And holy shit, I was like, well, that sucks. But I mean, obviously, I didn't think twice about it because it's on the track and my train's coming in a minute. And the guy who is sitting next to me on the bench just like stood up and like looked over and saw that it was my AirPods case. And he was like, oh, I'll get it. And I was like, you do not have to do that. Like, thank you for offering. But please do not. It's fine. It's just an AirPods case. Like, it's not the end of the world. And he was like, no, no, I don't mind at all. And I'm like, no, no, no, I insist like, please do not. And before I could stop him, he jumps down, jumps down onto the tracks, grabs my AirPods case, like it's nothing. |
| 1:28.2 | Like he's just |
| 1:28.8 | on the grass or like crossing the street and like starts to come back up. It was a little bit |
| 1:35.0 | difficult for him to get up, but he got up and just hands it to me as if like I said, he was like |
| 1:40.5 | crossing a street while the crosswalk was on. And I was, I didn't know what to say. |
| 1:46.3 | I was speechless. I wanted to give it to him. I was like, thank you so much. Like, holy shit, |
| 1:52.0 | that was so nice. And I never would have done it. And the train came like, I'm like 30 seconds after that. |
| 1:58.2 | Anywho, needless to say, do not jump onto train tracks. |
| 2:01.3 | AirPod cases are not worth it. |
| 2:03.6 | But do do kind things for strangers because I keep thinking about that. |
| 2:07.6 | And it keeps kind of encouraging me to do kind things for other strangers. |
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