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Every Wednesday is Tip Day. This Wednesday: eight tips for making new friends. Last week, I posted a list How to make friends — or at least think about it more clearly. That list sets forth the "essential friendship skills." But knowing the essential friendship skills isn't the same thing as being able to make friends. And friends are very …
Every Wednesday is Tip Day. This Wednesday: six tips for battling loneliness. The more I’ve learned about happiness, the more I’ve come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider. A while back, after reading John Cacioppo’s fascinating book Loneliness, I posted Some counter-intuitive facts about loneliness, and several people responded by asking, “Okay, but …
