The Mental Fitness Podcast | Building Mental Strength & Resilience
Sep 8, 2026 · 50 min · 11 segments
We’ve discussed the importance of having connection to oneself, but today we are turning to a pillar that's just as critical to our mental fitness: connection to others. Dave and Luke dig into…
Dave, this is a episode framed around one of our mental fitness connection to others.
I think it might be important just to talk about that as a pillar of mental fitness, why we believe it's a foundational pillar itself.
Yeah, it's very important.
I think there's connection to self, connection to others, and health and vitality.
And honestly, on this podcast, we've spent the majority of our time on connection to self.
We've also had a lot of really good episodes focused on health and vitality.
And there hasn't been as much content on connection to others.
But that is so important.
Yeah.
No one can survive this life.
No one can be really happy.
No one is mentally fit without meaningful connections to other people in our lives.
And so, you know, that one isn't to be skipped over.
You can't spend all day long, you know, analyzing yourself and really be mentally fit.
You have to work on your connection to others.
And that's what we're talking about today.
And there's a lot of outcome data behind this as well.
And this is what I'll just read quickly.
Julianne Lundstedt and her colleagues pulled 148 studies covering 300,000 plus people.
And they followed them for about seven and a half years on average.
And the people with stronger social relationships had a 50% greater likelihood of survival than people with weaker ones.
In that study, it was the same across all demographics, regardless of age, male, female, whatever your health status was or the cause of death.
And so just let that sink in.
People with stronger social relationships had a 50% greater likelihood of survival.
Yeah.
Dave, this is a episode framed around one of our mental fitness connection to others.
I think it might be important just to talk about that as a pillar of mental fitness, why we believe it's a foundational pillar itself.
Yeah, it's very important.
I think there's connection to self, connection to others, and health and vitality.
And honestly, on this podcast, we've spent the majority of our time on connection to self.
We've also had a lot of really good episodes focused on health and vitality.
And there hasn't been as much content on connection to others.
But that is so important.
Yeah.
No one can survive this life.
No one can be really happy.
No one is mentally fit without meaningful connections to other people in our lives.
And so, you know, that one isn't to be skipped over.
You can't spend all day long, you know, analyzing yourself and really be mentally fit.
You have to work on your connection to others.
And that's what we're talking about today.
And there's a lot of outcome data behind this as well.
And this is what I'll just read quickly.
Julianne Lundstedt and her colleagues pulled 148 studies covering 300,000 plus people.
And they followed them for about seven and a half years on average.
And the people with stronger social relationships had a 50% greater likelihood of survival than people with weaker ones.
In that study, it was the same across all demographics, regardless of age, male, female, whatever your health status was or the cause of death.
And so just let that sink in.
People with stronger social relationships had a 50% greater likelihood of survival.
Yeah.
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