Sometimes friendships happen spontaneously.

Sometimes they creep up on you.

Sometimes you're introduced.

And then they fade...

And the friendship never comes back spontaneously.

And the friendship never creeps back up on you.

And no one puts the two of you back together again.

How do you strengthen friendships on purpose?

Friendship is a big topic, bigger than any single course.So today we're going to focus on a simple hack that I've seen used to great success when rebuilding a once-great friendship:

Take an interest in their interests.

That's it.

It's not more complicated than that, although it can take a lot of effort to do it in earnest.

Many people feign an interest in the interests of those they'd like to be friends with.

That's not what this course is about.

Feigning interest is manipulative; it's telling people what they want to hear.

This is not a course about molding yourself into that which someone wishes for. We're not going to betray who you are, and we're not going to surrender your individuality.

This is about:

Taking a chance on something new.