Try This: Are you socially fit?
The 7
The Washington Post
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
You can read today’s edition of The 7 newsletter here. In the meantime, we’re sharing something else for you to listen to heading into this holiday weekend. It’s the first “class” from our audio course on making the most of your friendships. This comes from the team at The Washington Post’s “Try This” series which is hosted by Cristina Quinn. She learns what it means to be socially fit and why it’s never too late to start getting those reps in. Cristina speaks with Bob Waldinger, director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development. It’s the longest longitudinal study on human happiness. He explains why friendships matter for our health and what we can do to take stock of our connections.
Check out the rest of the episodes in the series about friendship and more audio courses from “Try This” here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Hannah. The Seven will be back as usual on Monday, but I have something else for you to check out in the meantime. I should tell you, though, that you can read the newsletter version of The Seven this morning. I'm linking that for you in the show notes. All right, so this other thing I'd love for you to check out. My colleague Christina Quinn hosts a podcast called Try This. |
| 0:24.0 | You may know Christina's voice from when she steps in to host The Seven. |
| 0:27.5 | Thanks, Christina. |
| 0:28.7 | The idea behind Try This is to bring you things to try, to make life's common challenges a little easier. |
| 0:35.6 | During this weekend after Thanksgiving, I've been thinking about the |
| 0:38.8 | season of Try This About Friendship. Spending time with people you care about and who care about you |
| 0:44.7 | matters. Christina speaks with experts about why friendships are good for your physical and mental |
| 0:50.2 | health and about how to foster friendships, old and new. I'm going to play you the first |
| 0:55.9 | part of this season now. To listen to the rest, find, try this wherever you're listening, and look for |
| 1:01.3 | season two. Thank you, by the way, for being part of the Seventh Circle. And for sending me all those |
| 1:07.5 | pumpkin pie recipes. I ended up making Robin's friend Meg's |
| 1:11.3 | mother Laura's recipe, and it was great. To all our listeners, please tell a friend this weekend |
| 1:17.1 | about our show and about Try This. Here you go. |
| 1:23.0 | Hey, welcome to Try This from The Washington Post. |
| 1:26.9 | Try This is a series of audio courses to help you take on common challenges and learn something new without having to make a big time commitment. |
| 1:34.7 | I'm Christina Quinn. I'm a journalist at the post and I'll be learning with you. |
| 1:39.3 | Almost like we're friends? |
| 1:44.3 | See, that's what this course is about. |
| 1:46.5 | More specifically, how to make the most of your friendships |
| 1:48.9 | wherever you are in life. |
| 1:50.8 | Here's how this will work. |
| 1:52.2 | Each try this course has anywhere from two to five classes, |
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