#114 Noreena Hertz: The Crisis of Loneliness

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Farnam Street

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Acclaimed economist and author Noreena Hertz breaks down the world’s loneliness crisis, and what it means for the well-being of our minds, bodies, economies and democratic institutions. In this episode we define loneliness and how to recognize it, its mental and physical health implications, the shame around admitting you’re lonely, what we can do to help alleviate the crisis for ourselves and our kids, and so much more.

Hertz has been an Honorary Professor at the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London since 2014 and she’s the author of five books, including the 2020 release The Lonely Century: Coming Together in a World that's Pulling Apart.

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0:00.0	one of the positives that has come out of our shared COVID experience is that we are talking about
0:06.0	loneliness much more today than we were in the past. And we should be because the scale at which
0:13.3	it's affecting us is immense, rich, poor, young, old, male, female, are lonely people. And of course,
0:23.4	the East as well as the West has been becoming more neoliberal, more individualism, more loneliness,
0:32.8	and the West doesn't have them enoughly now and either.
0:54.7	Welcome to the Knowledge Project. I'm your host, Shane Parish. This podcast sharpens your mind by
0:59.9	helping you master the best what other people have already figured out. If you're listening to this,
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1:16.8	Check out the show notes for a link. Today I'm speaking with Norena Hertz, who's been named by Vogue
1:22.1	as one of the most inspiring women and called by other outlets one of the world's leading thinkers.
1:26.9	This episode is about coming together in a world that's falling apart. We talk about loneliness,
1:33.1	what it is, how to recognize it, the health implications, the shame around admitting it,
1:39.3	and what we can do about it for ourselves, our friends, our community, and our kids. It's time to listen
1:47.7	and learn.
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