You Can't Actually Be Close to Fifteen People
You were never maintaining fifteen friendships, you were performing fifteen and connecting with none
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Before 30, you collect friends.
After 30, you curate them.
Smaller rooms. Better conversations. That’s the trade.
Robin Dunbar spent decades studying primate social groups and discovered something uncomfortable: humans can maintain roughly 150 casual relationships, 50 decent friendships, 15 close friends, and 5 intimate bonds. That’s it. Biology puts a hard cap on how many people you can actually know.
Most people learn this the expensive way.
