Stop thinking about what you’re going to say next and focus on what they’re saying right now. - Eric Barker

study of 403 people in the Journal of Happiness Studies showed that managing your free time is associated with higher quality of life.

We got to the moon and built the pyramids without email and Facebook. You can go a couple of hours without checking them.

"Jeff Hall's research found that it took as many as sixty hours to develop a light friendship, sometimes one hundred hours to get to full-fledged "friend" status, and two hundred or more hours to unlock the vaunted "best friend" achievement...

Hall also found that how people talked mattered. We've all hit that wall with a potential friend where the small talk starts to go in circles...

Want to make good friends without the dozens of hours?... Arthur Aron got strangers to feel like lifelong pals in just forty-five minutes. How? Well that leads us to our second costly signal: vulnerability."