Have anyone taken the friendshippill and noticed improvement in their gym progress?
Have anyone taken the friendshippill and noticed improvement in their gym progress?
Have anyone taken the friendshippill and noticed improvement in their gym progress?
What book is this?
The Social Brain The Psychology of Successful Groups -Tracey Camilleri, Samantha Rockey, Robin Dunbar (you probably heard of dunbar number, its that dunbar guy)
You made me do a 180 on my opinion on this without any argument or contradictory facts. Thank you correcting me.
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hermits who have 0 friends should be REALLY unhealthy.
and people who eat bad, take bad pills, and live next to a factory and breathe toxic air BUT have good friendships are better off overall?
mate the guy breathing factory-air will die so much sooner with health related issues being a nuisance to his daily life.
It's probably healthier to jam this book in your anus than to actually read it and believe it.
edge cases do not disprove the general principle, which is that having good relationships reduces long-term stress and that makes you healthier
The key word being good. I’d be interested in seeing how isolation compares to stress inducing/toxic relationships, which is what many people are stuck with.
I think having friends is a waste of time. They are goblin gains
>autist takes every word literally rather than being able to parse the underlying message
many such cases
>Tracey
stopped reading right there, you had me going for a while tho I'll give you that.
What a load of nonsense, but I am not going to waste my breath formulating a counter-argument.
I'm 6'4
What a load of shit
Babies in my country don't give a shit whether they got friends or not
Yet the same babies keep developing Asthma due to the extremely low-quality air (sand and particulates blasting in from the desert)
Shit ass fart-sniffing author
What is it like to actually have friends? How do you tell if the friends you have are fake?
I think with good friends you dont even ask this to yourself. I dont mean it in the faggy way of "you just know because you are friends and real friends are bla bla", i mean you dont even stop to think about it.
A lot of stories in books and shit give friendless autists the impression that friendship is something really elevated and sacred or sth (i have been there), but friendship is hanging out with people you like and specially having been around them for a long time so you know them pretty well.
It is not some achilles and patroclus kind of thing, nor a family kind of thing.
Just think about it, you go to the gym with a bro you'll often do better because he's there to spot you and you also want to perform in front of your pals. It's true though for broad health, just yesterday I was reading some research about Alzheimer's disease and social connection. Basically that being social is very good for the brain and old people who are total hermits have way, WAY higher risks of getting it.
Having good healthy relationships is excellent for your health, almost to the point of it being crazy just how good it is. You look at people who are poor as fuck in parts of the 3rd world and so many of them have higher happiness index scores than the rest of us, the common denominator? Extremely strong social connection.
I was talking to a coworker who is African about "stuff that you first noticed coming here that's different from back home" and he was saying how in Africa, oftentimes your neighbours are all related to you (even if only distantly). So "childcare" as we have in the west is less common there because if you're out for a few hours, the kids just go to your cousin's house next door, or their grandmother comes over and minds them.
The conversation then went into details of social/dating life in the west and how it's basically just corroding on every level here now.
>How do you tell if the friends you have are fake?
I'd say real friends will message you first, like if they want to hang our or if they send you funny memes.
>tfw I haven't had a person whom I would call a friend in almost a decade
do you lift?
Nah I get what the book is trying to get at. I have a greatly improved life since I found likeminded friends in the gym and it kind of seeps into the rest of your life.
>Have good time with friends
>Happy mood
>Low cortisol/stress
>More positive selfview when happy (also body seems better when happy as opposed to worse when sad/exhausted)
I reckon the author kind of explains in a roundabout way that we're social animals and that quality time with others alleviates our mood. I notice it even when going to the office (work mostly from home) that I'm feeling a bit more upbeat. Just my 2 cents.
Yes but I made the mistake of becoming best friends with a woman so while she cared more about me than anyone else in my life has women's loyalty stays with whoever tehy are fcking so as soon as she got a BF she threw it all away.
i wouldnt know, making friends as an adult is nearly impossible
Having fulfilling relationships will motivate you to be your best self, and flood your body with happiness chemicals that'll make you healthier. Is it a necessity? No. Will it help you gymmax? Probably.
Noone in my age range goes to my gym.
sadness.
Modern culture is ripping social connections to shreds, whole generation raised on screens, zoom calls and discord.