Try it For 1 Week: Small Ways to Make Your Life Fun & Exciting Again
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What simple ways can I make my life more fun and exciting?
Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast. Okay, I have a question for you. Why don't we have more fun? I mean, remember the good old days? Now I'm sounding like a grandparent, but you know what I mean. Barbecues, weekend plans, movie nights with friends. Why are we not doing more of that? I really miss it, don't you? So here's what I did. I called in the expert
How can I create meaningful connections with family and friends?
on how to create real meaningful connections with your friends and with your family to help you and me out. Her name, Priya Parker. Priya is going to teach you how to deepen your relationships with the people that you care about most, even if you don't get along with them. And she's going to start the conversation by asking you a very specific question. And this is a question that you're going to need to ask yourself anytime you're going to see your family, your friends. You need to ask yourself this question before you even start a Zoom call. You're going to love this because the truth is time is ticking. If you're lucky for your parents or your siblings to be alive, you may only see them a handful of times every year, like I do, because we don't live near each other.
And when you do get together with family, there's so often this tension that you just wish wasn't there. And guess what?
What is the #1 conversation starter for instant connection?
They wish it wasn't there either. That's why this episode matters. It's going to help you make every moment you have with other people so much better, whether at work, whether around the dining room table, whether you're talking about your friends or your neighbors. And don't we all deserve to have meaningful conversations, better connections, and a whole lot more fun? Of course we do. And that's exactly what we're going to know how to do after our episode today. Before we get started, I wanted to encourage you to stick around later in the episode to hear a special segment sponsored by Verizon, because I'm going to share with you how important it is to raise your standards. So stick around. You're going to love it.
Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast.
How can I make gatherings more meaningful and enjoyable?
I am so excited that you're here. I'm excited for this conversation. I want to have more fun. I know you do too. It's an honor to be together, to spend this time with you, and I promise you we're going to have fun, and you're going to love this. And if you're a new listener, or you're here because somebody shared this with you, I just want to take a moment and personally welcome you to the Mel Robbins Podcast family. Today, you and I are getting the secret to building community and connection with your family and friends from our incredible guest and expert today, Priya Parker. Priya is considered the leading expert in the world on how to create meaningful connections whenever you get together with other people.
She has degrees from Harvard, MIT, and the University of Virginia. Her best-selling book, The Art of Gathering, is considered the most cited and renowned book on how to better come together with people around you.
What strategies can help reduce tension during family gatherings?
She is also a conflict resolution facilitator who's helped lead global peace conversations in Asia and Africa and for decades. She has taught people just like you and me how to handle conflicts in our lives with the people we love. So please help me welcome... Priya Parker to the Mel Robbins Podcast. Priya Parker, welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast. Thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited because I feel like I want to have more fun and see people more.
Fun is good for our families. Fun is good for our health. Fun is not only fun, it's actually crucial to our relationships and to our communal life.
How can I build connections in a new community?
Amazing. Well, we all want to have it, but for some reason it seems kind of hard to be making fun and gathering and connecting with people. And so I want to read to you from your bestselling book, The Art of Gathering, How We Meet and Why It Matters. This is from the introduction. We spend our lives gathering. First in our families, then in neighborhoods and playgroups, schools and churches, and then in meetings, weddings, town halls, conferences, birthday parties, product launches, board meetings, class, family reunions, dinner parties, trade fairs, and funerals.
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Chapters
8 chapters
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What simple ways can I make my life more fun and exciting?
0:00–0:29
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How can I create meaningful connections with family and friends?
0:29–1:23
3
What is the #1 conversation starter for instant connection?
1:23–2:19
4
How can I make gatherings more meaningful and enjoyable?
2:19–3:07
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What strategies can help reduce tension during family gatherings?
3:07–3:44
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How can I build connections in a new community?
3:44–5:01
7
Why is healthy conflict important in relationships?
5:01–5:13
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What are some magical questions to enhance conversations?
5:13–1:13:43
Speakers
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