Social Relationships

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The goal is to provide easy access on everything one needs to know about social relationships.

Because we know brushing teeth is important and we know how to do this (hopefully), but many people can improve their social fitness.

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Why it's important.

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Improve mental health.

Social relationships influence your mental health.

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Explanation

The lack of social relationships is a key contributor to mental health issues like depression, anxieties and other psychological illnesses. Having a quality support network of friends, family and regular activities in communities increases wellbeing.

Examples

  1. Why Spending Time With Friends Is One of the Best Things You Can Do for Your Health

    Why Spending Time With Friends Is One of the Best Things You Can Do for Your Health
    Time

Checklist

  • Learn and reflect how social relationships influence your mental health and also of your family and friends.

  • Remember you need to have a few good bonds to avoid the problems and get the benefits like wellbeing. Having many mediocre relationships doesn't help here.

  • Watch out for toxic relationships.

  • Try to be more present, listen and find people who listen to you.

  • Invest enough time for quality social connections.

  • Read more about unconditional relationships and vulnerability.

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Improve physical health.

Why and how personal relationships impact physical health.

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Explanation

Close personal relationships and face-to-face meetings are one of the biggest factors for physical health. Strong social relationships increase the survival chance by 50%. Loneliness, social isolation or living alone causes an increased chance of mortality by 29%, 26% and 32%.

Examples

  1. Susan Pinker explains the connection between personal relationships and face-to-face meetings and health.

    The secret to living longer may be your social life
    Youtube

  2. If you maintain good social connections you have 4 times less risk to die after a heart attack compared to people, who are socially isolated.

    Psychosocial Influences on Mortality after Myocardial Infarction
    The New England Journal of Medicine

Checklist

  • Learn that quality social relationships can be equally or more important for your health than drinking, smoking and what you eat

  • Keep in mind that quality matters. Prioritize quality over quantity by focusing on face-to-face activities

  • Allocate enough time for social relationships

😀

Become more happy.

Close connections are the source for happiness.

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Explanation

What makes us happy? There's always been a huge debate. The data from long studies show that fame or money don't matter much. Instead close relationships play a huge role.

Examples

  1. Robert Waldinger and his team studied 724 men for more than 75 years. The key result is that good relationships keep us happy and healthy.

    What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness | Robert Waldinger
    YouTube

  2. A goal involving friends or family members or just making you more social will make you happier than something you can do alone.

    Is Social Connection the Best Path to Happiness?
    Greater Good | UC Berkely

  3. Happiness can be like an energy we can use to meet new people and we recharge it by meeting our most close people.

    People Seek Out a Certain Kind of Person When They Are Happy
    The Atlantic

  4. If many in your circles are happy or depressed it affects the others. Spending time with close contacts makes all feel better including yourself.

    Happiness Is 'Infectious' In Network Of Friends: Collective - Not Just Individual - Phenomenon
    ScienceDaily

Checklist

  • Reflect what is more important for you: Being happy, rich or famous?

  • Invest into the happiness of your friends and family by taking care of your relationships and it will make you happier as well.

  • It's the meaningful and close quality relationships that make us happy not every low-effort connection.

  • If you want to be happy, make enough time for quality connections.

What you need to know

🧘

Improve mental health.

Social relationships influence your mental health.

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Explanation

The lack of social relationships is a key contributor to mental health issues like depression, anxieties and other psychological illnesses. Having a quality support network of friends, family and regular activities in communities increases wellbeing.

Examples

  1. Why Spending Time With Friends Is One of the Best Things You Can Do for Your Health

    Why Spending Time With Friends Is One of the Best Things You Can Do for Your Health
    Time

Checklist

  • Learn and reflect how social relationships influence your mental health and also of your family and friends.

  • Remember you need to have a few good bonds to avoid the problems and get the benefits like wellbeing. Having many mediocre relationships doesn't help here.

  • Watch out for toxic relationships.

  • Try to be more present, listen and find people who listen to you.

  • Invest enough time for quality social connections.

  • Read more about unconditional relationships and vulnerability.

🏥

Improve physical health.

Why and how personal relationships impact physical health.

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Collapse

Explanation

Close personal relationships and face-to-face meetings are one of the biggest factors for physical health. Strong social relationships increase the survival chance by 50%. Loneliness, social isolation or living alone causes an increased chance of mortality by 29%, 26% and 32%.

Examples

  1. Susan Pinker explains the connection between personal relationships and face-to-face meetings and health.

    The secret to living longer may be your social life
    Youtube

  2. If you maintain good social connections you have 4 times less risk to die after a heart attack compared to people, who are socially isolated.

    Psychosocial Influences on Mortality after Myocardial Infarction
    The New England Journal of Medicine

Checklist

  • Learn that quality social relationships can be equally or more important for your health than drinking, smoking and what you eat

  • Keep in mind that quality matters. Prioritize quality over quantity by focusing on face-to-face activities

  • Allocate enough time for social relationships

😀

Become more happy.

Close connections are the source for happiness.

Expand
Collapse

Explanation

What makes us happy? There's always been a huge debate. The data from long studies show that fame or money don't matter much. Instead close relationships play a huge role.

Examples

  1. Robert Waldinger and his team studied 724 men for more than 75 years. The key result is that good relationships keep us happy and healthy.

    What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness | Robert Waldinger
    YouTube

  2. A goal involving friends or family members or just making you more social will make you happier than something you can do alone.

    Is Social Connection the Best Path to Happiness?
    Greater Good | UC Berkely

  3. Happiness can be like an energy we can use to meet new people and we recharge it by meeting our most close people.

    People Seek Out a Certain Kind of Person When They Are Happy
    The Atlantic

  4. If many in your circles are happy or depressed it affects the others. Spending time with close contacts makes all feel better including yourself.

    Happiness Is 'Infectious' In Network Of Friends: Collective - Not Just Individual - Phenomenon
    ScienceDaily

Checklist

  • Reflect what is more important for you: Being happy, rich or famous?

  • Invest into the happiness of your friends and family by taking care of your relationships and it will make you happier as well.

  • It's the meaningful and close quality relationships that make us happy not every low-effort connection.

  • If you want to be happy, make enough time for quality connections.

How to maintain personal relationships

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Improve mental health.

Social relationships influence your mental health.

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Explanation

The lack of social relationships is a key contributor to mental health issues like depression, anxieties and other psychological illnesses. Having a quality support network of friends, family and regular activities in communities increases wellbeing.

Examples

  1. Why Spending Time With Friends Is One of the Best Things You Can Do for Your Health

    Why Spending Time With Friends Is One of the Best Things You Can Do for Your Health
    Time

Checklist

  • Learn and reflect how social relationships influence your mental health and also of your family and friends.

  • Remember you need to have a few good bonds to avoid the problems and get the benefits like wellbeing. Having many mediocre relationships doesn't help here.

  • Watch out for toxic relationships.

  • Try to be more present, listen and find people who listen to you.

  • Invest enough time for quality social connections.

  • Read more about unconditional relationships and vulnerability.

🏥

Improve physical health.

Why and how personal relationships impact physical health.

Expand
Collapse

Explanation

Close personal relationships and face-to-face meetings are one of the biggest factors for physical health. Strong social relationships increase the survival chance by 50%. Loneliness, social isolation or living alone causes an increased chance of mortality by 29%, 26% and 32%.

Examples

  1. Susan Pinker explains the connection between personal relationships and face-to-face meetings and health.

    The secret to living longer may be your social life
    Youtube

  2. If you maintain good social connections you have 4 times less risk to die after a heart attack compared to people, who are socially isolated.

    Psychosocial Influences on Mortality after Myocardial Infarction
    The New England Journal of Medicine

Checklist

  • Learn that quality social relationships can be equally or more important for your health than drinking, smoking and what you eat

  • Keep in mind that quality matters. Prioritize quality over quantity by focusing on face-to-face activities

  • Allocate enough time for social relationships

😀

Become more happy.

Close connections are the source for happiness.

Expand
Collapse

Explanation

What makes us happy? There's always been a huge debate. The data from long studies show that fame or money don't matter much. Instead close relationships play a huge role.

Examples

  1. Robert Waldinger and his team studied 724 men for more than 75 years. The key result is that good relationships keep us happy and healthy.

    What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness | Robert Waldinger
    YouTube

  2. A goal involving friends or family members or just making you more social will make you happier than something you can do alone.

    Is Social Connection the Best Path to Happiness?
    Greater Good | UC Berkely

  3. Happiness can be like an energy we can use to meet new people and we recharge it by meeting our most close people.

    People Seek Out a Certain Kind of Person When They Are Happy
    The Atlantic

  4. If many in your circles are happy or depressed it affects the others. Spending time with close contacts makes all feel better including yourself.

    Happiness Is 'Infectious' In Network Of Friends: Collective - Not Just Individual - Phenomenon
    ScienceDaily

Checklist

  • Reflect what is more important for you: Being happy, rich or famous?

  • Invest into the happiness of your friends and family by taking care of your relationships and it will make you happier as well.

  • It's the meaningful and close quality relationships that make us happy not every low-effort connection.

  • If you want to be happy, make enough time for quality connections.

What activities you can do

🧘

Improve mental health.

Social relationships influence your mental health.

Expand
Collapse

Explanation

The lack of social relationships is a key contributor to mental health issues like depression, anxieties and other psychological illnesses. Having a quality support network of friends, family and regular activities in communities increases wellbeing.

Examples

  1. Why Spending Time With Friends Is One of the Best Things You Can Do for Your Health

    Why Spending Time With Friends Is One of the Best Things You Can Do for Your Health
    Time

Checklist

  • Learn and reflect how social relationships influence your mental health and also of your family and friends.

  • Remember you need to have a few good bonds to avoid the problems and get the benefits like wellbeing. Having many mediocre relationships doesn't help here.

  • Watch out for toxic relationships.

  • Try to be more present, listen and find people who listen to you.

  • Invest enough time for quality social connections.

  • Read more about unconditional relationships and vulnerability.

🏥

Improve physical health.

Why and how personal relationships impact physical health.

Expand
Collapse

Explanation

Close personal relationships and face-to-face meetings are one of the biggest factors for physical health. Strong social relationships increase the survival chance by 50%. Loneliness, social isolation or living alone causes an increased chance of mortality by 29%, 26% and 32%.

Examples

  1. Susan Pinker explains the connection between personal relationships and face-to-face meetings and health.

    The secret to living longer may be your social life
    Youtube

  2. If you maintain good social connections you have 4 times less risk to die after a heart attack compared to people, who are socially isolated.

    Psychosocial Influences on Mortality after Myocardial Infarction
    The New England Journal of Medicine

Checklist

  • Learn that quality social relationships can be equally or more important for your health than drinking, smoking and what you eat

  • Keep in mind that quality matters. Prioritize quality over quantity by focusing on face-to-face activities

  • Allocate enough time for social relationships

😀

Become more happy.

Close connections are the source for happiness.

Expand
Collapse

Explanation

What makes us happy? There's always been a huge debate. The data from long studies show that fame or money don't matter much. Instead close relationships play a huge role.

Examples

  1. Robert Waldinger and his team studied 724 men for more than 75 years. The key result is that good relationships keep us happy and healthy.

    What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness | Robert Waldinger
    YouTube

  2. A goal involving friends or family members or just making you more social will make you happier than something you can do alone.

    Is Social Connection the Best Path to Happiness?
    Greater Good | UC Berkely

  3. Happiness can be like an energy we can use to meet new people and we recharge it by meeting our most close people.

    People Seek Out a Certain Kind of Person When They Are Happy
    The Atlantic

  4. If many in your circles are happy or depressed it affects the others. Spending time with close contacts makes all feel better including yourself.

    Happiness Is 'Infectious' In Network Of Friends: Collective - Not Just Individual - Phenomenon
    ScienceDaily

Checklist

  • Reflect what is more important for you: Being happy, rich or famous?

  • Invest into the happiness of your friends and family by taking care of your relationships and it will make you happier as well.

  • It's the meaningful and close quality relationships that make us happy not every low-effort connection.

  • If you want to be happy, make enough time for quality connections.

Where technology can help

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Improve mental health.

Social relationships influence your mental health.

Expand
Collapse

Explanation

The lack of social relationships is a key contributor to mental health issues like depression, anxieties and other psychological illnesses. Having a quality support network of friends, family and regular activities in communities increases wellbeing.

Examples

  1. Why Spending Time With Friends Is One of the Best Things You Can Do for Your Health

    Why Spending Time With Friends Is One of the Best Things You Can Do for Your Health
    Time

Checklist

  • Learn and reflect how social relationships influence your mental health and also of your family and friends.

  • Remember you need to have a few good bonds to avoid the problems and get the benefits like wellbeing. Having many mediocre relationships doesn't help here.

  • Watch out for toxic relationships.

  • Try to be more present, listen and find people who listen to you.

  • Invest enough time for quality social connections.

  • Read more about unconditional relationships and vulnerability.

🏥

Improve physical health.

Why and how personal relationships impact physical health.

Expand
Collapse

Explanation

Close personal relationships and face-to-face meetings are one of the biggest factors for physical health. Strong social relationships increase the survival chance by 50%. Loneliness, social isolation or living alone causes an increased chance of mortality by 29%, 26% and 32%.

Examples

  1. Susan Pinker explains the connection between personal relationships and face-to-face meetings and health.

    The secret to living longer may be your social life
    Youtube

  2. If you maintain good social connections you have 4 times less risk to die after a heart attack compared to people, who are socially isolated.

    Psychosocial Influences on Mortality after Myocardial Infarction
    The New England Journal of Medicine

Checklist

  • Learn that quality social relationships can be equally or more important for your health than drinking, smoking and what you eat

  • Keep in mind that quality matters. Prioritize quality over quantity by focusing on face-to-face activities

  • Allocate enough time for social relationships

😀

Become more happy.

Close connections are the source for happiness.

Expand
Collapse

Explanation

What makes us happy? There's always been a huge debate. The data from long studies show that fame or money don't matter much. Instead close relationships play a huge role.

Examples

  1. Robert Waldinger and his team studied 724 men for more than 75 years. The key result is that good relationships keep us happy and healthy.

    What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness | Robert Waldinger
    YouTube

  2. A goal involving friends or family members or just making you more social will make you happier than something you can do alone.

    Is Social Connection the Best Path to Happiness?
    Greater Good | UC Berkely

  3. Happiness can be like an energy we can use to meet new people and we recharge it by meeting our most close people.

    People Seek Out a Certain Kind of Person When They Are Happy
    The Atlantic

  4. If many in your circles are happy or depressed it affects the others. Spending time with close contacts makes all feel better including yourself.

    Happiness Is 'Infectious' In Network Of Friends: Collective - Not Just Individual - Phenomenon
    ScienceDaily

Checklist

  • Reflect what is more important for you: Being happy, rich or famous?

  • Invest into the happiness of your friends and family by taking care of your relationships and it will make you happier as well.

  • It's the meaningful and close quality relationships that make us happy not every low-effort connection.

  • If you want to be happy, make enough time for quality connections.

How to meet new people

🧘

Improve mental health.

Social relationships influence your mental health.

Expand
Collapse

Explanation

The lack of social relationships is a key contributor to mental health issues like depression, anxieties and other psychological illnesses. Having a quality support network of friends, family and regular activities in communities increases wellbeing.

Examples

  1. Why Spending Time With Friends Is One of the Best Things You Can Do for Your Health

    Why Spending Time With Friends Is One of the Best Things You Can Do for Your Health
    Time

Checklist

  • Learn and reflect how social relationships influence your mental health and also of your family and friends.

  • Remember you need to have a few good bonds to avoid the problems and get the benefits like wellbeing. Having many mediocre relationships doesn't help here.

  • Watch out for toxic relationships.

  • Try to be more present, listen and find people who listen to you.

  • Invest enough time for quality social connections.

  • Read more about unconditional relationships and vulnerability.

🏥

Improve physical health.

Why and how personal relationships impact physical health.

Expand
Collapse

Explanation

Close personal relationships and face-to-face meetings are one of the biggest factors for physical health. Strong social relationships increase the survival chance by 50%. Loneliness, social isolation or living alone causes an increased chance of mortality by 29%, 26% and 32%.

Examples

  1. Susan Pinker explains the connection between personal relationships and face-to-face meetings and health.

    The secret to living longer may be your social life
    Youtube

  2. If you maintain good social connections you have 4 times less risk to die after a heart attack compared to people, who are socially isolated.

    Psychosocial Influences on Mortality after Myocardial Infarction
    The New England Journal of Medicine

Checklist

  • Learn that quality social relationships can be equally or more important for your health than drinking, smoking and what you eat

  • Keep in mind that quality matters. Prioritize quality over quantity by focusing on face-to-face activities

  • Allocate enough time for social relationships

😀

Become more happy.

Close connections are the source for happiness.

Expand
Collapse

Explanation

What makes us happy? There's always been a huge debate. The data from long studies show that fame or money don't matter much. Instead close relationships play a huge role.

Examples

  1. Robert Waldinger and his team studied 724 men for more than 75 years. The key result is that good relationships keep us happy and healthy.

    What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness | Robert Waldinger
    YouTube

  2. A goal involving friends or family members or just making you more social will make you happier than something you can do alone.

    Is Social Connection the Best Path to Happiness?
    Greater Good | UC Berkely

  3. Happiness can be like an energy we can use to meet new people and we recharge it by meeting our most close people.

    People Seek Out a Certain Kind of Person When They Are Happy
    The Atlantic

  4. If many in your circles are happy or depressed it affects the others. Spending time with close contacts makes all feel better including yourself.

    Happiness Is 'Infectious' In Network Of Friends: Collective - Not Just Individual - Phenomenon
    ScienceDaily

Checklist

  • Reflect what is more important for you: Being happy, rich or famous?

  • Invest into the happiness of your friends and family by taking care of your relationships and it will make you happier as well.

  • It's the meaningful and close quality relationships that make us happy not every low-effort connection.

  • If you want to be happy, make enough time for quality connections.

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Why it's important.

🧘

Improve mental health.

Social relationships influence your mental health.

Expand
Collapse

Explanation

The lack of social relationships is a key contributor to mental health issues like depression, anxieties and other psychological illnesses. Having a quality support network of friends, family and regular activities in communities increases wellbeing.

Examples

  1. Why Spending Time With Friends Is One of the Best Things You Can Do for Your Health

    Why Spending Time With Friends Is One of the Best Things You Can Do for Your Health
    Time

Checklist

  • Learn and reflect how social relationships influence your mental health and also of your family and friends.

  • Remember you need to have a few good bonds to avoid the problems and get the benefits like wellbeing. Having many mediocre relationships doesn't help here.

  • Watch out for toxic relationships.

  • Try to be more present, listen and find people who listen to you.

  • Invest enough time for quality social connections.

  • Read more about unconditional relationships and vulnerability.

🏥

Improve physical health.

Why and how personal relationships impact physical health.

Expand
Collapse

Explanation

Close personal relationships and face-to-face meetings are one of the biggest factors for physical health. Strong social relationships increase the survival chance by 50%. Loneliness, social isolation or living alone causes an increased chance of mortality by 29%, 26% and 32%.

Examples

  1. Susan Pinker explains the connection between personal relationships and face-to-face meetings and health.

    The secret to living longer may be your social life
    Youtube

  2. If you maintain good social connections you have 4 times less risk to die after a heart attack compared to people, who are socially isolated.

    Psychosocial Influences on Mortality after Myocardial Infarction
    The New England Journal of Medicine

Checklist

  • Learn that quality social relationships can be equally or more important for your health than drinking, smoking and what you eat

  • Keep in mind that quality matters. Prioritize quality over quantity by focusing on face-to-face activities

  • Allocate enough time for social relationships

😀

Become more happy.

Close connections are the source for happiness.

Expand
Collapse

Explanation

What makes us happy? There's always been a huge debate. The data from long studies show that fame or money don't matter much. Instead close relationships play a huge role.

Examples

  1. Robert Waldinger and his team studied 724 men for more than 75 years. The key result is that good relationships keep us happy and healthy.

    What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness | Robert Waldinger
    YouTube

  2. A goal involving friends or family members or just making you more social will make you happier than something you can do alone.

    Is Social Connection the Best Path to Happiness?
    Greater Good | UC Berkely

  3. Happiness can be like an energy we can use to meet new people and we recharge it by meeting our most close people.

    People Seek Out a Certain Kind of Person When They Are Happy
    The Atlantic

  4. If many in your circles are happy or depressed it affects the others. Spending time with close contacts makes all feel better including yourself.

    Happiness Is 'Infectious' In Network Of Friends: Collective - Not Just Individual - Phenomenon
    ScienceDaily

Checklist

  • Reflect what is more important for you: Being happy, rich or famous?

  • Invest into the happiness of your friends and family by taking care of your relationships and it will make you happier as well.

  • It's the meaningful and close quality relationships that make us happy not every low-effort connection.

  • If you want to be happy, make enough time for quality connections.

🧘

Improve mental health.

Social relationships influence your mental health.

Expand
Collapse

Explanation

The lack of social relationships is a key contributor to mental health issues like depression, anxieties and other psychological illnesses. Having a quality support network of friends, family and regular activities in communities increases wellbeing.

Examples

  1. Why Spending Time With Friends Is One of the Best Things You Can Do for Your Health

    Why Spending Time With Friends Is One of the Best Things You Can Do for Your Health
    Time

Checklist

  • Learn and reflect how social relationships influence your mental health and also of your family and friends.

  • Remember you need to have a few good bonds to avoid the problems and get the benefits like wellbeing. Having many mediocre relationships doesn't help here.

  • Watch out for toxic relationships.

  • Try to be more present, listen and find people who listen to you.

  • Invest enough time for quality social connections.

  • Read more about unconditional relationships and vulnerability.

🏥

Improve physical health.

Why and how personal relationships impact physical health.

Expand
Collapse

Explanation

Close personal relationships and face-to-face meetings are one of the biggest factors for physical health. Strong social relationships increase the survival chance by 50%. Loneliness, social isolation or living alone causes an increased chance of mortality by 29%, 26% and 32%.

Examples

  1. Susan Pinker explains the connection between personal relationships and face-to-face meetings and health.

    The secret to living longer may be your social life
    Youtube

  2. If you maintain good social connections you have 4 times less risk to die after a heart attack compared to people, who are socially isolated.

    Psychosocial Influences on Mortality after Myocardial Infarction
    The New England Journal of Medicine

Checklist

  • Learn that quality social relationships can be equally or more important for your health than drinking, smoking and what you eat

  • Keep in mind that quality matters. Prioritize quality over quantity by focusing on face-to-face activities

  • Allocate enough time for social relationships

😀

Become more happy.

Close connections are the source for happiness.

Expand
Collapse

Explanation

What makes us happy? There's always been a huge debate. The data from long studies show that fame or money don't matter much. Instead close relationships play a huge role.

Examples

  1. Robert Waldinger and his team studied 724 men for more than 75 years. The key result is that good relationships keep us happy and healthy.

    What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness | Robert Waldinger
    YouTube

  2. A goal involving friends or family members or just making you more social will make you happier than something you can do alone.

    Is Social Connection the Best Path to Happiness?
    Greater Good | UC Berkely

  3. Happiness can be like an energy we can use to meet new people and we recharge it by meeting our most close people.

    People Seek Out a Certain Kind of Person When They Are Happy
    The Atlantic

  4. If many in your circles are happy or depressed it affects the others. Spending time with close contacts makes all feel better including yourself.

    Happiness Is 'Infectious' In Network Of Friends: Collective - Not Just Individual - Phenomenon
    ScienceDaily

Checklist

  • Reflect what is more important for you: Being happy, rich or famous?

  • Invest into the happiness of your friends and family by taking care of your relationships and it will make you happier as well.

  • It's the meaningful and close quality relationships that make us happy not every low-effort connection.

  • If you want to be happy, make enough time for quality connections.