Episode 667: Are You Lonely or Just Under-Connected?

Loneliness and under-connection are not the same thing.

And if you are treating them as the same problem, you may be reaching for the wrong remedy entirely.

In this episode I draw a clear distinction between loneliness, a feeling state, and under-connection, a behavioral condition, and explain why the solution to one is emotional and the solution to the other is practical. I use the analogy of thirst versus dehydration: you can feel one without having the other, and treating them identically misses the specificity that actually helps.

I also share how to tell which one you are dealing with, what the research says about why passive social media use tends to increase rather than reduce loneliness, and the specific, unsexy prescription for under-connection: call more, meet more, show up more. Put it in the calendar with the same seriousness you give a work meeting.

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