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ood social day, if it was a good day the answer is usually yes even if your other problems were about the same. Now take away that good social part for whatever reason. Now all of your other problems seem pretty big, don't they? Because it's your social life that allows you to live and enjoy things and not think about your problems for a little while. As soon as our social life is gone everything'…
← Previous segment →to go to dinner and have a cocktail—and I paired you up, let's say you and your partner. I'll say you have a mate. But even if you're single it could be just five other single people. And that's the only thing you know. The only thing you know is that you lean right and you like to have a cocktail over a good meal. You don't think you'd have fun? You would. You would.
Now if you didn't have a great time the first day, well maybe the second day. Now suppose you did it every day for a month. You don't think you would meet one person that you'd want to have lunch with on your own later? Of course you would. That's how it works. All you really need is contact with other people. The rest works out. You'll always find a friend if you have enough contacts.
So the biggest problem in the world is loneliness and poor social networking. 100% of that could be solved by diversification, same as investment. You need to be exposed to an ongoing flow of different people such that some of that flow will match up with what you need and what you want. And then those people become your lasting situations. So you need an app that recognizes that people need flow. You can even—maybe that's the name of the app: Flow. It's not about finding your one person to marry. It's not about sex. It's about finding a continuous flow of people who have enough in common with you. Or even better, one of your options could be put me in a table that are totally different from me. Like it's a grab bag. I want to be at the weirdest table I could get. I want a rabbi and a punk rocker and a murderer. Like that's—you know, and I want a couple of drinks with that crowd. No, I would love that actually. You put me with the weirdest table and I'd have the best time.
So you could call it meetups. Yeah there's like a Meetup thing but I don't think that's quite there. I think there's an interface business model upgrade because the meetups are usually around an interest and I think that narrows it too much. I think it should be—and also the meetups end up being ossified like you're meeting the same group or so each time. I think you want to flow. You want the most number of people that you can spend a little bit of quality time with and then good things will happen after that.
All right. Did I deliver? See the problem with loneliness is that there's nobody's job
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to fix it. There's no cabinet position for social life and yet it's your biggest problem. Is that weird? It's your biggest problem for probably 75%. I think it's your biggest problem and there's nobody's job is to help you with it. There's no funding you can get. I mean I'm not even aware of any kind of training class to improve your—there's not an app, right? Yeah there's a difference between sol…
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