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The Magic of Tiny Moments

How to Cultivate Love, Friendship, & Community

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The Magic of Tiny Moments

By: Jared Matthew Weiss
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If you’re seeking deeper love, friendship, or community, The Magic of Tiny Moments offers a transcendent path to high-trust, meaningful connection.

In a world where we're lonelier than ever before, artist and researcher Jared Matthew Weiss has uncovered the hidden architecture of human connection. Drawing from behavioral science, neuroscience, and psychology, plus his groundbreaking research spanning 26 countries and 10,000 participants, Weiss offers a simple solution to cultivating better relationships.

Simply, if you're struggling to build meaningful relationships, the problem often isn't a lack of opportunity to connect with others—it's that you haven’t noticed the countless moments of potential connection that surround you every day. Most of us believe that relationships are built and broken in grand gestures and dramatic betrayals. The surprising truth? They're constructed slowly, one tiny moment at a time, through small interactions that make others feel safe, known, and loved.

Drawing from stories of real people from around the world, Weiss introduces the revolutionary "tiny moment loop"—the fundamental architecture behind every human interaction. Through this lens, he presents the “three laws of connection”: recognizing bids, making generous assumptions, and turning towards others.

This Audible Original is filled with evidence-based tools and immediate action steps for:

- Identifying the opportunities for connection already in your orbit every day

- Practicing self-care that leads to positive interactions with others

- Becoming more conscious of the thought patterns that may be hindering your capacity to truly connect with others

- Finding the resolve to forgive other people (and yourself) when things don’t work out the way you’d hoped

- Building your emotional vocabulary

- Creating deeper bonds with family, friends, romantic partners, colleagues, neighbors

- And so much more!

The Magic of Tiny Moments will forever change how you approach relationships. It offers a proven framework for relationship-building that has helped hundreds of people repair fractured family bonds, build communities of friends, grow high-trust corporate cultures, and cultivate lasting romantic relationships.

Whether you're looking to deepen family ties, forge meaningful friendships, enhance romantic intimacy, build team camaraderie, or create a vibrant community, this Audible Original offers a simple but powerful framework for transforming how you show up in all the social interactions of your life.

Because ultimately, the quality of our lives is determined not by the big moments we plan for, but by how we show up for the small moments we're given. The Magic of Tiny Moments will show you exactly how to make those moments count.

©2024 Jared Matthew Weiss (P)2024 Audible Originals, LLC
Psychology Relationships Society
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About the Creator and Performer

Jared Matthew Weiss believes that we all should get to know each other better. As a New York-based artist and researcher, he has spent over two decades creating spaces for people to share their stories and connect more deeply with themselves and others.
His work includes Touchpoint, a town hall series on human connection attended by 10,000 people across 26 countries; Overture, a video portraiture project that produced 4,000 personal videos of people sharing their life stories; and The Art of Introducing Yourself, an interactive self-expression workshop that empowers participants to articulate their passions and fears with clarity and power.
Weiss has been featured in The New York Times, Vogue, and on the Today Show.

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Insightful, simple advice to live a more connected life

Beautifully narrated by the author, The Magic of Tiny Moments lays out a bunch of stuff that you probably already know on some level, but with the science to back it up, and anecdotes to make it all real.

Weiss hasn’t broken new ground, exactly, but he expertly weaves together research across disciplines to tell a compelling story about how to be more authentic and open in one’s relationships, and how doing so will lead to a longer, healthier life.

Strongly recommend listening to this book!

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Wonderful book that can profoundly change how one approaches relationships!

There were many things to love about this book. The author gives the readers a guide on how one can approach all of the relationships in one's life. It is well researched and the recommendations are straight forward and relatable. Interspersed are true stories that bring home the author's points. He also carries his connection recommendations from the intimate to the larger community, broadening its impact. I can honestly say that this book has helped me to change the way I react and interact with those around me. The concept of making 'generous assumptions' in my relationships is very powerful. This is a book that one wants to read and reread. I very much hope that a print edition will come out soon so I can return to it when needed and remind myself of its basic and broader principles. The author does a great job narrating the book. I highly recommend this book to, well, everyone!

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A profound guide to building meaningful connections

In a world where personal relationships often feel complex, confusing, and even heartbreaking, The Magic of Tiny Moments offers both a beacon of hope and a practical guide for sense making.

Weiss distills what was clearly hundreds of hours of research—spanning fields like personal development, psychology, and spirituality—into a “greatest hits” collection of tools, frameworks, and research-backed principles for building healthy connections, brought to life through engaging and often vulnerable stories from his own life.

Concepts like the “body budget”, which focuses on managing physical and emotional reserves through practices like exposure to nature or single-tasking, and the “baby checklist,” which underscores the importance of self-care, are profound in their simplicity and potency.

If you’re interested in deepening your connections—with loved ones, strangers, or yourself—this book is an invaluable resource. Highly recommended!

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Surprisingly fun and interesting read

A beautiful exploration of how to find and create more connection in your life. Jared is a wonderful writer, and brings in touching and interesting stories.

Such a great read.

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Love the tiny moments

A beautiful articulation of what is most important in life - long live the tiny moments, trust, and friendship.

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This book transformed my relationships

The concepts in this book are so simple yet so powerful that once you learn them, you can’t unsee them. They reveal the subtle ways we either draw people closer or push them away, and they’ve completely reshaped how I connect with my children, my partner, my friends, and even strangers. If you’re seeking more meaningful and fulfilling connection in any area of your life, this book is a must-read. It’s the kind of book I know I’ll return to time and time again.

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Life-changing

The concepts in this book are equal parts simple and revelatory. The idea that our relationships are just collections of tiny moments where we either show up for each other or we don't has really changed the way I think about relationships with everyone. Thank you!

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I love these stories

The true stories about human connection throughout this book are so interesting and the insights are powerfully true. Great listen!

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Incredible Book. Love love love!!!!

This book has meant so much to me. I learned so much from listening to Jared. I truly believe I am going to cultivate relationships in a much more meaningful way after listening to this book. Highly recommend to everyone.

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good in the beginning, then drops off drastically

Overall this title regurgitated a lot of basic psychology and therefore is a bit too common sense to be worth the time to listen in full. Although I enjoyed the refresher on bids for attention, I think most of the book was basically... psychology says to "be kind" and you'll have a better social life. But, it did not expand to any profound new information. I also don't appreciate when authors put together a bunch of researchers work with a few personal stories and slap their name on it as an author. I feel it's a cheap shot to write a book and take credit for the researchers hard work, by simply making it easy for the layman to digest.

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