Episode Details

Why are some things hard for us but not our partners or our friends? Do we make things harder than they need to be? Or are some things, like picking up the phone and talking to a stranger to order pizza, just stupidly difficult for everyone?

We asked our listeners: What seems harder to you than it needs to be? What's something you struggle with that you suspect you might be making a little more complicated than it needs to be?

In this episode we discuss all the things that are perhaps overly hard for at least one of us, like

• packing for trips
• back-to-school shopping
• having people over
• cleaning out the car
• making new friends

Is there hope? Can we learn anything from our friends for whom these same things are not at all hard? Listen and find out!

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