8 Minutes for a Friend | A Bit of Optimism #Podcast

11 Apr 2025 · 0 min

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Short transcript excerpt from a conversational YouTube podcast episode featuring Simon Sinek discussing the idea that friends should give each other at least eight minutes of attention during hard times. The speakers reflect on a personal exchange where one person believed they had reached out but the other did not notice, underscoring the importance of deliberate, brief check-ins.

For those who may know of that video that I made where I talked about the eight minutes. It was you and me. It was you and me. That was our experience where I asked you how you were and you said, I'm better now. And I said, what do you mean you're better now? And you're like, I've had a horrible week. I'm like, why didn't you call me? And you're like, I did. And I look at my text and says, you fought you there. What are you doing? What are you. I'm like, yeah, you were the one who read the article that said, all a friend needs is eight minutes.
And so now if we need each other, I, like, have eight minutes.
Do you have eight minutes? You were the og.
Yeah.
For that. For that experience. Yeah.
If we laugh with our friends, if we love our friends, if we show up for our friends, if we give them the eight minutes in those moments of like, I need you on the phone, are you there? Right. Those are the things that are going to be with us till the end. That's what's important.