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Friendship and Social Fitness
It is nearly impossible to be happy without friends
I thought about my friendship with Tom as I read a new paper published in the journal Communications Psychology by social psychologists Lara B. Aknin and Gillian M. Sandstrom. It is a constant surprise to hear successful adults, especially men — managers of large companies, brilliant lawyers and doctors — speak about how isolated and lonely their lives have become.” Dr. Robert Waldinger, the director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, advocates what he calls “social fitness.” He points out that just as you don’t go to the gym once or twice and assume your physical fitness has been addressed, the same applies to friendships.
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