Esther Perel
speaker
5,077 appearances
21 recordings
15 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Jun
Esther Perel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But turn around, somebody's standing in line, turn around at the counter, turn around in front of the barista.
There is people around you all the time.
Every stranger is a potential best friend or person that you could fall in love with and you have no idea, but you've got to remain open to serendipity.
Yeah.
And now we feel so weird when we're in public and alone that we put our phone because we'd rather not make eye contact.
Like it almost feels cringe or weird to make eye contact with someone because you're scared of them looking at you in one sense, or you're scared of looking at them because we're not as exposed to it.
And so we'd rather just take our phone because it's an easier way to wait in a line.
That's social out of you.
And that has consequences for everything else.
You're in trouble, nobody will reach out.
Because your statistic about the young man who doesn't reach out to a woman or doesn't make contact, it's the same as who has a best friend, who has someone to call when you're in trouble, who can you ask for help, who do you go out with.
I mean...
These things are interconnected.
If you don't socialize properly, you also feel more lonely.
And if you feel more lonely, you become more isolated.
You become more isolated.
You become more anxious.
You become more anxious.
You make sure never to leave your phone when you're in an elevator.
You become more anxious.
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