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Sep 2024
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Ep. 501: Turn Acquaintances into Friends...

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project
About this episode

We discuss why you might want to transform an acquaintance into a friend as well as specific ways to deepen that relationship. We also discuss an important happiness lesson modeled for us by our parents, and suggest a hack to make emails more efficient (and shorter).

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