The Case for Spending More Time with Your Friends | Rhaina Cohen | TED

Key Takeaways

• 1In a time when loneliness has become a public health crisis, we're being challenged to reconsider one of our most fundamental assumptions about rel...
• 2The core argument is simple yet revolutionary: if we don't limit friendship, it can be central to our lives.
• 3Currently, we constrain friendship by thinking it can do less than it actually can.
• 4We don't think about friendship as involving commitment, let alone a commitment formalized in front of other people.
• 5Between the assumption that friendship should be private, easy, and shouldn't involve serious commitment, plus the cap we place on emotional intens...