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Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make and Keep Friends as an Adult
Marisa G. Franco
4.09 AVERAGE
796 reviews for:
Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make and Keep Friends as an Adult
Marisa G. Franco
4.09 AVERAGE
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
• #ModernMrsDarcy book club flight pick for February 2023 #MMDBookClub
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informative
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A lot of stuff I have already heard about friendship and it became boring
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Great and handy guide to friendship!! Accessible language and sensible messages. Definitely has given me new perspectives.
Most of all, I think this book has crystallized my belief in community, and how making community should be a top priority for all of us. The way our society is structured today.... we've made a world where it's too easy to not talk to other people -- and the science shows interacting with people leads to caring about them. So when we don't interact with others, we care less about them.
When I was in high school and took a psychology class, this type of science -- the psychology theories like exposure theory and about how we care most about those we see and interact with -- felt like proof that humans are tricked by our brains. But this book has thoroughly reframed the psychology, and now I see that I shohld never have felt silly for falling victim to how my brain works. It works that way because that's what made human beings survive: we needed all these fail-safes inside us that forced us to create community and care for one another. That's why humans still exist today: we've taken care of one another for millennia.
So anyway, this is all just a long-winded way to say... face-to-face interactions with your friends and also people who maybe aren't your friends are NECESSARY to have a decent human experience. We just live in a world where we're deprived of our needs, so we must take the extra steps to make sure we get that friendship, and support from communities.
[I could go on about how I believe this is related to the current state of American politics but for the sake of keeping this a goodreads book review and not a spiraling essay I won't
Most of all, I think this book has crystallized my belief in community, and how making community should be a top priority for all of us. The way our society is structured today.... we've made a world where it's too easy to not talk to other people -- and the science shows interacting with people leads to caring about them. So when we don't interact with others, we care less about them.
When I was in high school and took a psychology class, this type of science -- the psychology theories like exposure theory and about how we care most about those we see and interact with -- felt like proof that humans are tricked by our brains. But this book has thoroughly reframed the psychology, and now I see that I shohld never have felt silly for falling victim to how my brain works. It works that way because that's what made human beings survive: we needed all these fail-safes inside us that forced us to create community and care for one another. That's why humans still exist today: we've taken care of one another for millennia.
So anyway, this is all just a long-winded way to say... face-to-face interactions with your friends and also people who maybe aren't your friends are NECESSARY to have a decent human experience. We just live in a world where we're deprived of our needs, so we must take the extra steps to make sure we get that friendship, and support from communities.
[I could go on about how I believe this is related to the current state of American politics but for the sake of keeping this a goodreads book review and not a spiraling essay I won't
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Super cool topic, maybe better in print rather than audio