PATHS connection is key

01/18/2023

32-HOUR WORKING WEEK:
This podcast features a panel of experts on this topic. Their experience and research suggest this shift is likely to be on its way with many benefits such as better health, better connectedness to others, and that people have a lower carbon footprint when they have more time. Surprisingly, productivity does not seem to be badly affected in most cases. As always, the application of a 32-hour working week will need to be different in different sectors of work.

Check out the podcast on Think Again: The Four Day Work Week, Luxury or Necessity:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-four-day-work-week-luxury-or-necessity/id1346314086?i=1000587018396

01/10/2023

EVIDENCE:

Loneliness (lack of connection) has been identified as a major health risk (see pinned post), and because it affects physical and mental health, loneliness can literally kill you. In fact, Steve Cole, Ph.D., NIA-funded researcher, says that loneliness acts as a “Fertilizer for other Diseases” like heart disease, brain inflammation, Alzheimer’s disease, anxiety, and depression.

https://www.eehealth.org/blog/2021/10/older-adults-isolation/ #:~:text=NIA%2Dfunded%20researcher%20Steve%20Cole,brain%20leading%20to%20Alzheimer's%20disease.%E2%80%9D

01/09/2023

EDUCATION: Connection is key to effective education!

01/04/2023

SCHOOLS/WORKPLACES:
Culture is all important.

12/29/2022

VIDEO: Making Face-to-Face Connection More Frequent!

12/27/2022

VIDEO: Why is face-to-Face Connection Hard to Achieve Now?

12/24/2022

OLD WISDOM:

12/23/2022

GENERATION Z:
A group in New York City explores ways to reclaim connections to people and to the real world.

When the only thing better than a flip phone is no phone at all.

12/22/2022

EVIDENCE:

12/20/2022

GIFTS:
Done well physical gifts can be connecting. But overdone they can become disconnecting as the receivers become focused on materialistic urges and lose sight of the relationships.

You may find more daily inspiration on Chopra. 💞

12/19/2022

EVIDENCE:
According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at the time the first iPhone was released onto the market screen time accounted for half of our personal free time. By 2017, it accounted for almost all of it for most people.

Source: Adam Alter/TED 2017: Why Our Screens Make Us Less Happy

https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_alter_why_our_screens_make_us_less_happy?language=en -147481

12/11/2022

CONNECTING TO OURSELVES
…is often forgotten but is very important.