This is why men are more likely to kill themselves. For years, female rates in almost every form of mental illness outscore men, sometimes by more than 3x. Yet for some reason, men have higher suicide rates. For a long time this discrepancy was written off as a byproduct of

The Batman effect. A female experimenter, appearing pregnant, boarded the train. In the experimental condition, an additional experimenter dressed as Batman entered from another door. Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present (67.21%

Sneak peek of Lunch Conversations Courtesy of Alpha School

Conversations at Lunch coming soon! Part of the @AlphaSchoolATX-verse! Did a 2hr pod with the top teen dating + friendship experts @ReubenRunacres @elle_kristinee

Modern self-care is just self-harm. People have forgotten what healthy solitude is and have instead found nicer ways to be alone. Fancy loneliness is still loneliness, and people who are stressed are not going to become less stressed by isolating themselves. Back away from the

Life is easier when you care about someone other than yourself. Loneliness feeds on self-focus. Caring for others is paradoxically a form of self-care that pulls you out of it.

Psychologically, friendships are a better predictor of well being and serve as a buffer to loneliness and mental illness. While family and marriage can serve as a positive influence, it can also lead to negative outcomes that close friendships don't have

Friendships are more important than your family or marriage

I'm actually hosting an event this weekend in Austin for any guys interested: https://t.co/Xbep11JeHY Thanks to @yashchitneni and @AlphaSchoolATX's hackathons I can now code things like my event page!

A @UCBerkeley experiment found that people felt lonelier after watching 60‑second clips of sleep‑deprived strangers.

Very interesting concept, but am I just going to have this council of ancestors in 50 years?

Your friendships won’t evolve if your plans don’t. If you do the same thing every time you see your friends, your friendships will stay one-dimensional. So if you know a guy and you only see him at the bar on a Friday, invite him to do something different.

You overthink your crush. You underthink your friends. If you want to keep them, reflect on your friendships as much as you do your crush. Friendships quickly fall apart if you don't pay enough attention.

Source: https://t.co/dVRnEmnRAs

You are more genetically similar to your close friends than you are to strangers. Genetically, your friends are your fourth cousins.

I'm reading 𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 by Robin Dunbar and one of my favorite parts is the section about weak ties. These connections give us information, random positivity, and make up 99% of our social life. It's these friendships, not the close ones, that truly make the world run.

Just wait till you see what humans do

This comes back to the balance between the responsibility of an individual and the responsibility of society. It is the responsibility of individuals to improve themselves, bootstrap, and adapt. But it is the responsibility of society to make that process of improvement as easy

Freud said look inward (unconscious drives). Jung said look inward (individuation). Adler said look outward (social interest) and he was right. We've created a generation obsessed with their own trauma, feelings, and "healing journey" while ignoring that humans are wired for

Graph of the Week - proportions of suicides in the U.S. that are male and female by age cohort from @JamesLNuzzo Yet misguided journalists criticize those highlighting the crisis facing boys and men, accusing us of unnecessarily "gendering" the issues.

If love isn't enough of an answer I don't know what this guy is looking for.