The Magic of Tiny Moments

How to Cultivate Love, Friendship, & Community

By: Jared Matthew Weiss

Narrated by: Jared Matthew Weiss

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

Eye-opening and transformative

I absolutely loved this illuminating, thought-provoking, generous work, narrated warmly by its author. I was able to immediately apply the concepts I learned and instantly saw the power it gave me to transform my relationships and more intentionally build community. Weiss has clearly done his research, but he shares the information within an easy-to-follow and inviting framework, as if you're talking over coffee. This was eye-opening, and I've already been recommending it to everyone I know.

Heart-Forward, Refreshing and Practical

I loved the depth of heart offered in this book. It was wide reaching in its look at what makes for healthy human connections, but what I loved most were the practical elements offered as gifts - I.e. the look/in-depth look at the 3 laws of connection and the wheel of emotion. The book was very well researched and was created to genuinely be a generous guide. Thanks. Loved it

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!

Five hours and fifty four minutes to change your life forever

This book has the most pound for pound wisdom than any other book I’ve read. It contains simple yet deep truths that are going to undeniably help me get more— much more— out of my life and relationships. And somehow it’s also simple, straightforward, relatable, heartfelt, and entertaining. I highly highly highly recommend this book!

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!

A must read for anyone who wants a connected life.

I love how the author combines his personal experiences with practical tips for building meaningful relationships and community. It’s obvious that he has put in his thousand hours and the book is action packed with tangible tools for gathering people, honest communication and true connection. The author also does a great job reading the book.

A practical, fascinating, digestible guide to improving connections and building community

Weiss starts with the research but effortlessly moves between his own experiences and those of others he has met around the country and the world. It’s an easy listen with tons of easy-to-implement tips for taking small steps towards improving relationships, building community, and finding more happiness and purpose

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!

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.

A Love Letter to us Humans

While driving from Austin to Dallas, I have the thought, "this is Jared's love letter to the rest of humanity."

What does that mean?

In this book he weaves together information from so many different teachers into a manual for how to connect and how to live a better life. It's an offering to his fellow humans that says you don't need to struggle in the dark anymore. Smart people have figured so much out about how to live in relationship with other human beings (And ourselves).

The way he's weaved together the insights and research with his own personal stories of travel make the points come alive.

For newbies to personal development this is an amazing first stop along the way that will open up many new paths and teachers to connect with.

For personal development junkies like myself, this book is a great overview, deepener, and refresher for so many of the wise tools and research that's been done on how humans live their best life.

Jared's an engaging speaker and storyteller, which makes this an easy listen. I highly recommend adding it to your Audible library.