Otter Raft@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago"Reluctance to reach out to old friends is a common experience, but reconnecting can pay off" - Do you have a story about reconnecting with an old friend?message-squaremessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up152arrow-down1message-square"Reluctance to reach out to old friends is a common experience, but reconnecting can pay off" - Do you have a story about reconnecting with an old friend?Otter Raft@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square11fedilinkfile-text
Inspired by this article: https://theconversation.com/reluctance-to-reach-out-to-old-friends-is-a-common-experience-but-reconnecting-can-pay-off-263079
minus-squareunderline960@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up14·7 days agoI smell survivorship bias. I have a 20% hit rate on this (literally 1 out of 5). It was okay; we caught up, chatted for a couple of weeks and then realized there wasn’t much left to go on. If I could do it all over again, I wouldn’t.
I smell survivorship bias.
I have a 20% hit rate on this (literally 1 out of 5). It was okay; we caught up, chatted for a couple of weeks and then realized there wasn’t much left to go on.
If I could do it all over again, I wouldn’t.