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on the LinkedIn Podcast Network, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to a bonus

episode of Negotiate Anything. So shout out to our premium subscribers. If you are a premium

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And for those of you who are not subscribers of Negotiate Anything Premium, you can get a snippet of this episode, just a little taste.

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of the episode if you want to get your free trial of Negotiate Anything Premium. And with that,

let's get into the episode. Now, I'm very excited about this episode because I'm going to

show, I'm going to share with you an idea, a concept that I've been playing around with personally for a long time.

For about one or two years, I've been playing around this with this in private.

And it is a concept called optimal relationship distance.

And I created this because I believe that it could be another data point of analysis for us to explore when we are looking

at why certain relationships are breaking down, why we find ourselves in consistent conflict

with certain people and we can't really put our finger on it.

So think about times where you might have a relationship with somebody, where

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