One Man's Impossible Quest: To Make Friends in Adulthood

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The Secrets of Supercommunicators

Note: This is a rebroadcast. Have you ever known one of those people who seemed to be able to connect with anyone? The kind of person who had the ability to make others feel understood and smoothly navigate even the trickiest of conversations?Charles Duhigg calls these folks “sup ...  Show more

The Joy of Touching Grass (and Knobs, Buttons, and Boarding Passes)

Remember the old hotel ice machines? The kind where you'd slide your bucket under the chute and hear the avalanche of cubes crashing into it? There was something so fun and strangely gratifying about that thing.Or think about breaking an icicle off the edge of a roof. Such a grat ...  Show more

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