Sonja Lyubomirsky
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And that last part is really important.
That kindness, yeah, it's so critical.
It's kind of a symptom, right, that the other person really cares.
And as you said, we can tell you can't fake it.
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.
So this was like in January, last January in Brooklyn, New York.
It was sort of a dark, you know, kind of dark, like a cold day.
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.
So we were sort of brainstorming ideas for our book.
And I would say at least three different people
just came up to us and started talking to us.
And one of them was really shy and said, I'm really sorry to interrupt, but I want to tell you.
So they heard we were talking about feeling loved.
And so they gave us different stories from their lives.
And sort of one woman, maybe 28 or something,
Her boyfriend, I think, lives in Mexico, she said.