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For nearly 10 years, I have spent my Monday evenings attending rehearsals for my amateur choir. Mondays are not my favourite days, whom they saw only occasionallywhom you spend a lot of time withthat I miss my weak tiesthat for new information and ideasand I often arrive in a bad moodbut I don’t remember their namesbut it has turned out that quantity matterswhom you have never met before, but by the end of the rehearsal, I usually feel energised. The singing does me good. So do the people.

 

There is no choir practice now, and won’t be for a long time. I miss it. In lockdown, I don’t feel short of affection or emotional support, but I do feel short of friendly faces and casual conversations. Another way of putting this is that I miss my weak tieswhom they saw only occasionallybut I don’t remember their namesthat for new information and ideaswhom you spend a lot of time withbut it has turned out that quantity matterswhom you have never met beforeand I often arrive in a bad mood.

 

Scholars used to assume that an individual’s well-being depended mainly on the quality of relationships with close friends and family, whom they saw only occasionallybut I don’t remember their nameswhom you have never met beforethat I miss my weak tieswhom you spend a lot of time withthat for new information and ideasand I often arrive in a bad moodbut it has turned out that quantity matters,  too.

 

One way to think about any person’s social world is that you have an inner circle of people whom you often talk to and feel close with, and an outer circle of acquaintances whom you see infrequently or briefly. Scientists named these categories “strong ties” and “weak ties”. Their central insight was whom they saw only occasionallywhom you have never met beforeand I often arrive in a bad moodthat I miss my weak tiesthat for new information and ideaswhom you spend a lot of time withbut I don’t remember their namesbut it has turned out that quantity matters weak ties are more important to us than strong ones.

 

Scientists surveyed 282 Boston-based workers and found that most of them got their jobs through someone they knew. But only a minority got their job through a close friend; 84% got their job through another type of relationships — casual contacts and I often arrive in a bad moodthat I miss my weak tieswhom you have never met beforewhom you spend a lot of time withbut it has turned out that quantity matterswhom they saw only occasionallybut I don’t remember their namesthat for new information and ideas. As researchers pointed out, the people whom you spend a lot of time withbut it has turned out that quantity mattersthat I miss my weak tiesthat for new information and ideasbut I don’t remember their namesand I often arrive in a bad moodwhom you have never met beforewhom they saw only occasionally swim in the same pool of information as you do. We depend on friendly outsiders to bring us news of opportunities from beyond our immediate circles — and so the more of those acquaintances we have, the better.