Face-to-face socializing in America has declined by greater than 20% nationwide. Amongst some teams, like younger adults and single males, the drop is nearer to 40%.
However surprisingly, this hasn’t led to the loneliness epidemic that you just hear a lot about. As an alternative, we’re seeing a brand new phenomenon: rising aloneness with out rising loneliness.
In the present day on the present, Derek Thompson will assist us perceive this puzzling disconnect and its profound implications. Derek is a workers author at The Atlantic who not too long ago wrote a chunk entitled “The Anti-Social Century.” Within the first half of our dialog, Derek unpacks the cultural shifts and technological developments — and no, it’s not simply the smartphone — which have created what he calls the “comfort curse.” We then get into why even self-described introverts are sometimes happier when pressured to socialize, the regarding development of younger males settling additional and additional into isolating, sedentary leisure, and sensible methods we will strengthen our atrophied social muscle tissues to turn out to be higher, happier individuals.
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