From the course: How to Train Your Brain For Happiness
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The age of disconnection
From the course: How to Train Your Brain For Happiness
The age of disconnection
- The third pillar for investing in your happiness is connection. Why is connection so important to finding a life of happiness? We live in an age of disconnection, or I like to say, we are disconnected in an overconnected world. All of us have our devices that we're on constantly, but social media or feeling connected online isn't the same as feeling connected in real time. Let's face it. Your brain did not evolve for social media, it evolved for social connection in real time with people. Why is it so important? I find in my research that the lack of social connection is one of the greatest contributors to the SAD, the stress, the anger, and disengagement. Something happens in the brain that we've talked about in previous chapters, your brain being a social organ, we're social creatures that are driven for connection, for community and for belonging. This is especially true in the corporate world or in a work…
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