3 Simple Tools That Banish Loneliness and Strengthen Connection – Dr. Vivek Murthy with Dave Asprey – #756

• How is the state of loneliness in the world right now? – 1:46
• The notion social distancing is actually a bit of a misnomer. – 4:23
• Keep 15 minutes aside each day and during which we reach out to people that we care about.  – 6:07
• Make the time we do spend with other people count and count for more. – 6:30
• Look for ways to serve one another.  – 7:03
• Help someone else and that actually changes your state to be more positive. – 9:03
• Service is such a powerful antidote to loneliness. – 11:27
• Is there a medical definition of loneliness or a descriptive thing that’s how a physician sees loneliness?  – 12:17
• Three types of societies that, generally speaking, are out there. I call them the three bowls. – 18:25
• The key to strengthening our connections with other people has to do with strengthening our connection with our self. – 22:01
• Loneliness can look like depression. It can look like anxiety. It can look like boredom. It can look like despair. Loneliness can look like all these different things. – 29:48
• Most people wouldn’t want to admit that they were lonely because it’s some sort of a failure and we don’t like to admit that we failed at something. – 32:05
• People who struggle with chronic loneliness do experience a higher risk of adverse health outcomes. They have a higher risk of premature death of heart disease, of dementia, depression, anxiety, and a host of other conditions but the flip is true as well, which is that social connection is an extraordinary source of healing in our lives, as well.  – 34:34
• How would I know which of the people around me is experiencing loneliness? – 37:56
• The percentage of adults who are lonely in the United States, it’s somewhere around 22% of adults is much more than that number of adult who have diabetes. It’s more than the number of adults who smoke in the United States. – 39:05
• The culture of work in the modern world flips our priorities. – 43:48
  
• I think you have a setup for people feeling lonely regardless of how many people they’re surrounded by. – 46:21
  
• I was hearing from college students on college campuses about their loneliness. Their parents were talking to me about how they struggled with loneliness. People in remote fishing villages in Alaska, CEOs of companies, members of Congress in Washington, DC, all of these people would tell me behind closed doors that they were struggling with loneliness. – 49:03
  
• My challenge to tech entrepreneurs, can you help us design technology that strengthens human connection, not that dilutes it or weakens it. – 55:49

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