The ObservatoryYour inner circle
Who actually gets your time, and does it match who matters most?
How it works
- Who is closeList
- Who gets the timeWrite
- One step toward themWrite
We don’t have unlimited room for close relationships. Research suggests most people hold roughly five truly close and about fifteen important ones. The question is not how many you know, but who is closest in. We start t …
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Why does it work?
The quality of close relationships is one of the strongest known predictors of health and longevity, and our capacity for such bonds is limited, which makes it all the more important to direct time well. Source: Holt-Lunstad et al., PLoS Medicine (2010); Dunbar (1992).
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