139 - The Friendship Cure by You Are Not So Smart published on 2018-10-21T02:14:55Z On this episode, we welcome journalist Kate Leaver to talk about her new book The Friendship Cure in which she explores the crippling, damaging, life-threatening impact of loneliness and the severe mental health impacts of living a life disconnected from a support network of close contacts. But...there is a cure...learning how to connect with others and curate better friendships. In the interview we talk about loneliness, how to make friends, the difference between male and female friendship, platonic friendships, friends with benefits and lots, lots, more. -- • The Great Courses: www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/smart -- • Squarespace: www.squarespace.com CODE: SOSMART -- • ZipRecruiter: www.ziprecruiter.com/NOTSOSMART Genre Science Comment by Kohelath Love the lecture, but the irony of hearing your interviewee assert at that women have better and more communicative friendships, followed by a rant about toxic masculinity.... makes me think that she has a serious bias. 2021-08-08T23:54:30Z