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Conversational affordances often require saying something at least a little bit intimate about yourself, so even the faintest fear of rejection on either side can prevent conversations from taking off. That’s why when psychologists want to jump-start friendship in the lab, they have participants answer a [series of questions](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0146167297234003) that require steadily escalating amounts of self-disclosure (you may have seen this as [“The 36 Questions that Lead to Love”](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/style/no-37-big-wedding-or-small.html)).

Good Conversations Have Lots of Doorknobs

Adam Mastroianni

In summary: The importance of exercise in this situation cannot be overstated Combine exercise with regulating carbohydrate level to your tolerance, reducing fructose intake, etc. for even better results This is great news because we now know metabolic syndrome, NAFLD, NASH, don’t need drugs to cure them

AMA #20: Simplifying the complexities of insulin resistance: how it's measured, how it manifests in the muscle and liver, and what we can do about it

peterattiamd.com

In short, our empathy for everyone in the world makes us anxious and upset, leading to depression, despair and cynicism. Eventually, we burn out.

Stranger God

Richard Beck

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