5 strategies for making friends as a working adult
Five wholesome, algorithm-free tips for cultivating a rich(er) social life
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101 ways to make and maintain friendships
101 Ways to Make and Maintain Friendships
My contribution to the advice canon for making friends follows a similar vein: Think of friendship as a tapestry. It starts with its first seams—a meeting at a party, an introduction, a spark at a concert. Sometimes you’re knitting it together, sometimes one person is working overtime, and sometimes you stop and look at what you’ve made and know th
... See moreAaron Edwards • I Followed Common Advice for Making Friends. Then I Learned What It Really Takes.
Here’s some extremely obvious advice for anyone living in San Francisco (or any city, really) that feels lonely: go outside, strike up conversations with strangers, and accept every invitation someone extends to you until you become BFFs and/or your social calendar is full for the next 3 months.
Celine Nguyen • In Defense of San Francisco
The act of making new friends should be just as intentional as the act of dating someone new,
Kat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships
The real act of, say, building a friendship or creating a community involves performing a series of small, concrete social actions well: disagreeing without poisoning the relationship; revealing vulnerability at the appropriate pace; being a good listener; knowing how to end a conversation gracefully; knowing how to ask for and offer forgiveness; k
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