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why do we need friends?


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I think that humans just physiologically need to have friends. I think it's just important as eating, sleeping and have a eating, drinking, breathing and having a place to sleep. I think social interaction on a confidence and trust level is essential to any semblance of a healthy human being. It's been said lots of times, no man is an island, everybody comes from somewhere, everybody is connected to someone.

And I think there's a reason for that. We are built to, individuals, we humans as individuals are built to build as a community, if that makes sense. And so we're just hardwired to come together and seek a common purpose and work together to meet that goal, and friends and having friends and having that social interactions that is a big part of that. I mean and sometimes that end goal. It's not always the best, right, because humans were very faulty, we make a lot of mistakes, but it's it's also the best part of us were our best, and we are our worst when when we get together and so I think it's really important to choose very wisely the friends that you keep near you because we are the ... I've heard it said that we are the average of the five people close to us. And so, that social interaction we just need, I've heard it called a social mirror.

We understand ourselves as by the reactions of those around us. We understand what's acceptable, what's not acceptable, what's good, what's bad, what hurts, what's nice, based on how the people around us react. And if you ignore that, you're ignoring a core part of being a human being.

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