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SHIFTHEADS Why Saying Hi Is the Actual Answer to Loneliness
Talking to strangers statistically works out better than anyone walking into it believes it will. Three hundred participants. A week-long scavenger hunt built around daily stranger approaches. The expected rejection rate versus the actual rejection rate is the kind of gap that makes you rethink a lot of small decisions.
Something shifts when the barrier turns out to be internal rather than social. Expectations in this study grew more accurate every day as the stories people told themselves about being unwelcome collapsed under the weight of what kept actually happening. The stranger, it turns…
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