HeyJaredRelational Riffs
A newsletter that riffs on the science and practice of relationships. We tackle (and sometimes tickle) the complexities of relationships between people and between life roles.
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The Tao of Pooh and the True Nature of Understanding (opens the original)
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With my book launch one month away, I’ve been thinking about where it all began: with the question of why so many of us feel so misunderstood by the people closest to us. And why, despite our best efforts, we so often fall short in understanding others. (Or so they tell us, even when we feel certain we understood them perfectly!)Part of my answer to this question is that we try to understand each other mostly with our heads. We gather evidence and build theories about what our partner, friend, c
Wall Street's Relationship Advice (opens the original)
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Dear Riffers,I want to introduce something a little different in this week’s newsletter: a discussion that, on the face of it, has nothing to do with relationships. This discussion is about the irrational decisions investors make.Huh, you wonder? Hang tight, I’ll explain. Let me start with an introduction to a colleague:Alex Edmans is a professor at London Business School who studies financial markets for a living. I had him on my <a href="https://offtheclockpsych.com/may-contain-lies-with-
Pain Makes Us Mean (opens the original)
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Hey Riffers,Quick housekeeping before we get into it: the book hits shelves in just over a month, which means book club is finally coming back after a long pause, and this time we’ll be discussing my new book (which comes out October 27th), Why Don’t You Understand Me? <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NJ1K!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s
Help, Cheating, or Just a Really Bad Headshot? (opens the original)
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Dear Riffers,First and foremost, this: an early final copy of my book, in my HANDS. .<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="339.9416208791209" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2K0O!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%
What to Do When Your Partner Is Depressed (Besides Panic) (opens the original)
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Most of us will spend some stretch of a relationship with a mood we didn’t ask for. Maybe it’s ours. Maybe it’s our partner’s. Sometimes it’s a rough patch that clears in a few weeks. But sometimes it’s more than that: you’re partnered with someone who is struggling mightily, and you’re trying to figure out what that makes you. A caretaker? A therapist? A hostage to their symptoms? Nobody hands you a manual.Depression is common enough to be almost unremarkable. Yet the guidance for what to do wh
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