Pete Wright

Go walk the dog and call an old friend, right?

Just reach out.

Just check in.

Just respond to someone's news with genuine enthusiasm and not with just like, oh, cool, but tell me more about that.

Right.

Yeah.

The research shows that when a friend responds to your wins with real engagement, it deepens the sense that you matter to them.

And that sense of mattering, it's one of the strongest predictors of friendship quality and personal well-being that we have.

I think that's awesome.

Third, this one's also for my ADHD ears.

Systems beat willpower every time.

This is actually interesting.

I was just listening to the daily show podcast, the ears version.

Yeah, it's good.

They do a pre-cap episode at the beginning of the week where one of the writers will talk to the host for the coming week about what they have going on.

And this week is Desi Lydic, as we record this.

And so Desi was talking about...

This whole thing, she was like, I have this old friend and I always feel guilty.

And she wrote me back and she said, can we please just set up a time on the calendar?

And Desi said, that is like horrifying to me because you're putting our friendship, this heart forward thing, and you're making it a business time thing.