S02E14 The Create Opportunities to Connect Episode
March 20, 2023
Theresa Destrebecq & Vincent Musolino
Season 2
Episode 14
Check-In Question:
- What are you attached to?
Big Ideas:
- How does our attachment related to our happiness?
- Relationships have a direct relationship to our health
- What will continue to shift in our relationships as we work in virtual spaces
- Desperate for connection
- Can't escape our need for connection
- A tribe is 150 people
- Are people more afraid of connection because of the pandemic?
- 1 in 3 people around the globe says they are lonely (pre-covid)
- Social media gives us a false sense of connection
- Relying on tools for connection, but it's not true connection
- We say things online we wouldn't say in person
- Comparison of curated lives
- Prioritizing real connections with real people
- Social fitness - an ongoing practice in developing relationships
- How do we develop friendships?
- Cultural differences in how relationships are developed
- Baby steps in building relationships
- Social services as a way to meet new people
- Age not being a defining factor in a friendship
- Shifting from risk aversion to risk affinity
- Relationships take vulnerability. One person has to be the first to be vulnerable.
- Create chance and opportunity
- Acknowledging risks and the possibilities
- The illusion of control in staying in the known, even if it's uncomfortable
- Peach versus coconut styles of friendships
- Relying on Employee Resources Groups in lonely at work
- Reaching out to people out of curiosity, without an agenda
- Letting people know that you appreciated something that they said, even if you don't know them
- Not taking it personally if people don't respond when we reach
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