Friendship
A book that will help you make new friends and re-ignite your friendships as we emerge from the pandemic.
Friendship in the Age of Loneliness
An Optimist’s Guide to Connection
by Adam Smiley Poswolsky
AS SEEN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
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What You’ll Learn
Make New Friends. Take Care of Your People.
Be a Minister for Loneliness in Your Community.
How loneliness has increased among young adults (and gotten even worse during the pandemic), and what we can do about it.
How social connections and friendships play a vital role in our health, influencing everything from our cardiovascular system to our immune system.
How to re-ignite your friendships as we emerge from the pandemic.
How to bring more play into your life, destigmatize mental health, build a healthier relationship with tech, and build a meaningful life off-screen.
Specific habits and evidence-based exercises to make friends as an adult.
Practical tips for meeting new people, making virtual connections more human, deepening friendships, staying in touch, finding believers, fostering intergenerational friendship, and being a Minister for Loneliness in Your Community.
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About the Book
After a year of social distancing and lockdown measures during the pandemic, it’s more clear than ever that our friendships and social bonds are vital to our health and happiness. This refreshing, positive guide helps you take care of your people and form deep connections in the digital age.
We are lonelier than ever. The average American hasn't made a new friend in the last five years.
Research has shown that people with close friends are happier, healthier, and live longer than people who lack strong social bonds. But why—when we are seemingly more connected than ever before—can it feel so difficult to keep those bonds alive and well? Why do we spend only four percent of our time with friends?
In this warm, inspiring guide, Smiley proposes a new solution for the mounting pressures of modern life: invest in friendship. Smiley offers practical habits and playful reminders on how to create meaningful connections, make new friends, and deepen relationships. This book reminds us that nurturing old and new friendships is a ritual, a necessity, and one of the most worthwhile things we can do in life.
About the Author
ADAM SMILEY POSWOLSKY is a millennial workplace expert, motivational speaker, and author of The Quarter-Life Breakthrough, The Breakthrough Speaker, and Friendship in the Age of Loneliness. Smiley regularly speaks at Fortune 500 companies and has advised heads of state and foreign leaders about millennial talent, multigenerational engagement, and fostering belonging in the digital age. Smiley’s TED talk on “the quarter-life crisis” has been viewed over 1.5 million times, and he has spoken in front of fifty thousand people in twenty countries. Smiley’s work has been featured in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, Fast Company, CNN, and the World Economic Forum, among many other outlets. Smiley is a 13-time camp counselor at Camp Grounded: Summer Camp for Adults and advisory board member for Digital Detox.