Bowling Alone

Mark Manson

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"Several times mentioned Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone. That book came out in the '90s, like early '90s I think even too. And it was looking at data from the previous 50 years about how just Americans were spending less and less together and instit..."

"Putnam's book Bowling Alone is actually really remarkable to read now even though it's now 26 years old. He has data about how frequently people are writing greeting cards to each other, how frequently they're calling each other on the phone or pl..."

"In Bowling Alone it's like the bridging social capital. Whatever you want to call it, but it's like how do we increase the exchange between all these bubbles and bring them a bit closer together again where we feel like we can belong."

"I think of Robert Putnam, the political scientist who wrote the book Bowling Alone, which looks incredibly prescient in retrospect, where he talked about the decline of civic engagement and the impacts it would have on health and longevity."