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![Friendship in the Age of Loneliness](Friendship-in-the-Age-of-Loneliness.jpg "Friendship in the Age of Loneliness")

From [here](https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/friendship-age-loneliness-optimists-guide-connection-bookbite/28372/)

!!!! Adam Smiley Poswolsky is a millennial workplace expert, motivational speaker, and author of The Quarter-Life Breakthrough and The Breakthrough Speaker. He shares 6 key insights from his new book, Friendship in the Age of Loneliness: An Optimist’s Guide to Connection.

In response to the mounting pressures of modern life, we’ve been prescribed every potential cure under the sun: Quit social media, download a meditation app, declutter your house, become a badass, use a bullet journal, go paleo, go keto, get a Peloton, do CrossFit, do nothing—the list goes on. Yet we rarely talk about the simple power of spending more time with friends. We look at our phone every twelve minutes, and spend fifty minutes a day on Facebook and Instagram; yet we spend just four percent of our time with friends.