Learn to connect with others and feel a sense of belonging. Too often we treat loneliness as a defining feature of our lives that we are powerless to change. With social intelligence, we pursue a new way of understanding ourselves and our relationships. We each have a social self that flourishes not in isolation but in concert with others. The evidence that humans are social creatures is undeniable. To build the capacity to see ourselves as social beings who can choose to allow others into our lives, we need to embrace a new way of understanding our identities: Not as self-centered organisms, but people concerned with ourselves and others.
THE BLUEPRINT TO RELATIONSHIPS