Friendliness: How To Win Friends And Influence People
About this episode
Apparently I'm not super friendly because I refused to chat with the drug addled crazy person.
In Episode #292 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: can you be too friendly and the downsides to overt friendliness, where we rank on a scale of nicety, practical steps I have taken to make more international friends, why reciprocity could set standards that are hard to meet and how society could be shaped to be more friendly.
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Timeline:
(0:00) - Why this topic?
(2:00) - My unfriendly adventure
(8:36) - Being too friendly
(13:30) - Our friendliness levels
(20:27) - You can still be assertive and friendly
(22:40) - Boostagram Lounge
(28:15) - How to win friends and influence people
(32:32) - My goals to make friends
(40:10) - Unrealistic expectations of reciprocal friendliness
(44:41) - Making society more friendly
(49:49) - Value for value
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