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Sonja Lyubomirsky

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
455 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Hidden Brain
Do You Feel Loved?

And that last part is really important.

Hidden Brain
Do You Feel Loved?

Like, I actually care, right?

Hidden Brain
Do You Feel Loved?

And so that warmth...

Hidden Brain
Do You Feel Loved?

That kindness, yeah, it's so critical.

Hidden Brain
Do You Feel Loved?

It's kind of a symptom, right, that the other person really cares.

Hidden Brain
Do You Feel Loved?

And as you said, we can tell you can't fake it.

Hidden Brain
Do You Feel Loved?

It's evolutionarily adaptive, again, for us to be good inauthenticity detectors, right, because those are maybe people that we don't want to invest a lot of time with.

Hidden Brain
Do You Feel Loved?

It was actually incredible.

Hidden Brain
Do You Feel Loved?

So this was like in January, last January in Brooklyn, New York.

Hidden Brain
Do You Feel Loved?

It was sort of a dark, you know, kind of dark, like a cold day.

Hidden Brain
Do You Feel Loved?

And so, and this has never really happened anytime because I'm often in coffee shops talking to people, but I've never been sort of approached so consistently by others.

Hidden Brain
Do You Feel Loved?

So we were sort of brainstorming ideas for our book.

Hidden Brain
Do You Feel Loved?

And I would say at least three different people

Hidden Brain
Do You Feel Loved?

just came up to us and started talking to us.

Hidden Brain
Do You Feel Loved?

And one of them was really shy and said, I'm really sorry to interrupt, but I want to tell you.

Hidden Brain
Do You Feel Loved?

So they heard we were talking about feeling loved.

Hidden Brain
Do You Feel Loved?

And so they gave us different stories from their lives.

Hidden Brain
Do You Feel Loved?

And sort of one woman, maybe 28 or something,

Hidden Brain
Do You Feel Loved?

Her boyfriend, I think, lives in Mexico, she said.