Gretchen Rubin

I'm so happy to see them when I show up at the soccer game. We're making plans all the time. But they're not friends. They're friendly acquaintances who are connected by something related to their children. And when the children go away off to college, The soccer group falls apart. The performance group falls apart. There's nothing holding those friends together.

I'm so happy to see them when I show up at the soccer game. We're making plans all the time. But they're not friends. They're friendly acquaintances who are connected by something related to their children. And when the children go away off to college, The soccer group falls apart. The performance group falls apart. There's nothing holding those friends together.

You really have to push a friendly acquaintance into the friend zone. And there's a lot of ways you can push somebody into the friend zone, but you really have to do it because otherwise it just doesn't exist anymore without that centerpiece. It's like work friends.

You really have to push a friendly acquaintance into the friend zone. And there's a lot of ways you can push somebody into the friend zone, but you really have to do it because otherwise it just doesn't exist anymore without that centerpiece. It's like work friends.

You really have to push a friendly acquaintance into the friend zone. And there's a lot of ways you can push somebody into the friend zone, but you really have to do it because otherwise it just doesn't exist anymore without that centerpiece. It's like work friends.

You can see somebody all the time and have great conversations by the coffee machine, but unless you really push it into being a friend, it tends to vanish if you get a new job. But the poignant part is that people don't know that. They think they have friends.

You can see somebody all the time and have great conversations by the coffee machine, but unless you really push it into being a friend, it tends to vanish if you get a new job. But the poignant part is that people don't know that. They think they have friends.

You can see somebody all the time and have great conversations by the coffee machine, but unless you really push it into being a friend, it tends to vanish if you get a new job. But the poignant part is that people don't know that. They think they have friends.

So you really want to know in advance so you can make people those friends, or then you want to grab them from the past, which that's a great way to find friends is from friendly acquaintances in the past, but it's nice to do it prospectively.

So you really want to know in advance so you can make people those friends, or then you want to grab them from the past, which that's a great way to find friends is from friendly acquaintances in the past, but it's nice to do it prospectively.

So you really want to know in advance so you can make people those friends, or then you want to grab them from the past, which that's a great way to find friends is from friendly acquaintances in the past, but it's nice to do it prospectively.

Yes, right, yeah.

Yes, right, yeah.

Yes, right, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. One of my favorite was a bunch of guys and they were like, look, we're not going to read a whole book. Let's be real. And so what they did is they took turns picking famous profiles for the New Yorker, which are like 4,000 words long, written by amazing authors about amazing people. You can get them off the internet. You can read them pretty easily.

Yeah. Yeah. One of my favorite was a bunch of guys and they were like, look, we're not going to read a whole book. Let's be real. And so what they did is they took turns picking famous profiles for the New Yorker, which are like 4,000 words long, written by amazing authors about amazing people. You can get them off the internet. You can read them pretty easily.

Yeah. Yeah. One of my favorite was a bunch of guys and they were like, look, we're not going to read a whole book. Let's be real. And so what they did is they took turns picking famous profiles for the New Yorker, which are like 4,000 words long, written by amazing authors about amazing people. You can get them off the internet. You can read them pretty easily.

So I think anything that brings people together is great. And you pick the thing that works for you, that's a terrific way to do it. And then people find their own centerpiece.

So I think anything that brings people together is great. And you pick the thing that works for you, that's a terrific way to do it. And then people find their own centerpiece.

So I think anything that brings people together is great. And you pick the thing that works for you, that's a terrific way to do it. And then people find their own centerpiece.