PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO EXPRESS GRATITUDE IN YOUR HEART FOR ALL WHO HAVE DIED TO MAKE THIS GREAT COUNTRY LIVE

The risk of premature death from being socially disconnected is equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes per day. It represents an even higher mortality impact than the lack of physical activity and obesity, according to US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.  

In a recent advisory, he warned that being persistently alone presented “Profound Threats” to Americans’ health.  

Time spent with friends fell by 20 hours a month from 2003 to 2020…and that was before the pandemic!

I hope reading this will put the idea in the front of your mind, and you’ll phone a friend, make a plan, accept an invitation, and extend another one.

Texting is not a connection.  Last week, I told you about Meheribian’s communication rule that 55% of our communication is delivered non-verbally, with 38% of meaning sent via tone and voice inflection and only 7% of our meaning attributed to words. What does that tell you about texting?

Here is more science about face-to-face communication:

Anthropologist Ray Birdwhistell pioneered the original study of nonverbal communication. He estimated that the average person speaks words for about ten or eleven minutes daily and that the average sentence takes only about 2.5 seconds. Birdwhistell also estimated we can make and recognize around 250,000 facial expressions.

None of that happens via text, email, or phone calls.

Meet a friend for coffee, go out to dinner, take a walk in the park, and nod and smile at the people passing by.  

I promise that it is well worth the effort (and science backs me up).

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