Escaping the Drift - The Weekly Drop: The Art of Building Genuine Friendships
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What is the focus of this episode?
from the podcast that gets you from where you are to where you want to be escaping the drift this is the weekly drop with john gafford no matter what platform you're watching or listening to us on make sure you like subscribe and comment and now the drop welcome back everybody to another episode of the weekly drop man my little private podcast where to just meet here in the studio talking to you about things that i find interesting or things that i think will help you and this week man i gotta be honest with you It's more about me than it is about you. And what I mean by that is I wanted to do a podcast about something that's been troubling me, man, kind of lately and kind of how I am. And so I figured me being a problem solver and what I do is I do research and try to figure out how to get better at when things aren't going the way that I want it to go.
And the topic of what's been kind of bugging me lately is I've realized as I've gotten older, I have a shit ton of acquaintances and very few friends. And I know there's little memes everywhere that says it's better to have two good friends than 500 acquaintances. But I just, I'm not somebody that really believes that. And as you get older, people change, things happen. People come into your life, they go out of your life. But the older you get, the harder it really becomes to make good friends. And what started me thinking down this line was my good friend Travis Chappell. Check out his podcast, which is Travis Makes Friends. Just did his little solo drop on this deal, and I listened to it, and I thought, man, that was pretty profound.
Why are genuine friendships important as we age?
Because one of the things about living in Vegas, right, and living here in this town is because there's so much going on here from conventions to events and this and that, you really kind of get, it's a great litmus test for who's really your friend and who is really just an acquaintance. And that line to me has become, you know, when people come to town, if I'm on my stories, Instagram, and I see them in Vegas and they didn't call me, that's okay. That's an acquaintance. Because friends kind of call each other when they go to town. Like, I couldn't imagine going to certain places in the United States where I have friends that live there and not calling them. Like, I just can't even get my head around that. And, you know, it's a little troubling because sometimes when you move people from that friend category to that acquaintance category, it's kind of like, damn, it kind of sucks, man. It's a little brutal. And the older you get as your circle gets smaller, right?
and the harder it gets to meet people or become really good friends with people, you know, you start to feel, I don't care who you are, you feel a little lonely. And I think when you're looking for friends, and I think you're looking for that friend group, when you're little, dude, it's easy. You like the monkey bars? I like the monkey bars, let's be friends. Did we just become best friends? Yep, we sure did. But as you get older, You value people for different things. And I think people look for different value out of folks. And when I say older, I mean, even like you look in high school, right? You know, the popular kids take an interest in you. You want to hang out with the popular kids because they raise your social status.
As you get a little older, maybe you start networking on a business side. So you look for people that are in the same business as you or can help you with your business. But the older and older you get, the less and less and less that kind of works. And it gets difficult because you get your own life. You get kids. If you're successful in business, you get somewhat separated from everybody else. And time goes on. People start to think, too, if you're someone like me that has a relatively large public persona here in town anyway, people just assume that I'm always busy or there's something going on. So you don't get invited to a lot of stuff. And it's weird. And when you do get invited to things and you can't go for whatever reason, it's just like, man, I can't go, but please invite me again. So I'm not going to give you stories today of great success of what I've done to do this. I'm going to give you some books that I found this week and some tips that they give you on how hopefully I can get better.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the focus of this episode?
0:00–1:33
2
Why are genuine friendships important as we age?
1:33–7:31
3
How can vulnerability enhance friendships?
7:31–8:13
4
What are effective ways to move beyond small talk?
8:13–13:14
5
How can sharing personal stories deepen connections?
13:14
6
What steps can I take to check in on friends?
12:31–12:48
7
How do I initiate deeper conversations?
12:48–15:36
Speakers
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