How to Manage Your Energy in a Big Friend Group

The Overthinker's Guide - Episode 4: Overthinking Friend Groups. It can be tough navigating adult friendships while managing work, relationships and your own sanity. We believe we've found 2 concepts that will help you decide when to take one for the team and when to prioritize yourself. If you've been on Instagram in the last few months you may be familiar with the concept, "if you want a village, you need to be a villager". In this episode we marry this concept with something called Friendship Tax to help you optimize your village and maintain healthy, happy friendships. 0:00 Intro. 5:14 The concepts- Being the villager vs. Friendship tax 10:26 Applying the concepts in real life. 12:25 Is it lonely being a villager? 18:18 When to pay the tax. 21:56 People pleasers are just rich villagers. 26:12 The toll of tax. 32:00 Society- the board game.