Elizabeth Day - How To Cope With Being A 'Friendaholic'

My guest today is the awesome Elizabeth Day. Elizabeth is a very dear friend and a person who has affected my life incredibly positively. If it wasn&apost for her you wouldn&apost know about me. Back in 2019, she hosted me on her podcast &aposHow To Fail" which now has more than 35 million downloads. Elizabeth is an amazing soul who has found a way to use her vulnerability to dig deep inside to tell us about what we all feel but don&apost say or address. She now has a new book out called &aposFriendaholic&apos it&aposs a beautiful approach to understanding that friendship is not always better when there is more of it. Anyway I just used that as an excuse to meet my wonderful friend

Elizabeth Day is an award-winning author and broadcaster. Her chart-topping podcast, How To Fail With Elizabeth Day, is a celebration of all of the things that haven’t gone right. Every week, in a one-on-one interview, a guest discusses what they have learned from failure. Elizabeth has written two books off the back of the podcast: How To Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong, is part-memoir, part-manifesto. It is also a Sunday Times top 5 bestseller. Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong was described by Alain de Botton as ‘beautiful, timely and humane.’ Elizabeth is currently developing her first screenplay - a fictionalised adaptation of How To Fail. Two of her novels have also been optioned for screen. https://www.elizabethday.org/

Listen as we discuss:

04:00 - Friendaholics10:30 - What is friendship?17:00 - Social media friends19:00 - What makes a good friend?27:30 - Dunbar&aposs number34:00 - Love trumps everything36:00 - The break-up40:00 - The Friendship contract44:00 - Social conditioning47:00 - Guilt is a stupid feeling50:00 - Revisiting 1’s and 0’s52:00 - Justin56:00 - Connecting with others60:00- Quiet01:02:30 - Scales of connection01:04:00 - Why human connection is at risk01:10:00 - Thank you Alexa!01:12:30 - Game over

Connect with Elizabeth Day on Instagram @elizabday and find out more about her work here.

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