This is Steveer Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

I'm here today with Dan Shalbell, author of Back to Human, how great leaders create connection in the age of isolation.

Thank you for joining us, Dan. So happy to be here, Steveer.

So question, why connectedness and isolation?

Where did these themes come from?

And how do they relate to being human?

We all overuse and misused technology.

This is the first book that resonates with everyone I know, including my parents,

who describe it to their friends, because everyone's overusing

it. You know, we tap our devices over 2,600 times a day. We look at our phones every 12 minutes.

We send an average of five texts within meetings. So we're just so addicted to receiving alerts

and responding to alerts. And, you know, it releases dopamine in our

brain when that happens, which pleases our reward system. We want more and more like a drug.

And so the more we're using technology, the more it's confining and isolating us, which makes

us more lonely and hurts our health and productivity. And so because we are spending so much time using technology,

it's almost convinced us that we have so many friends, like Facebook friends, like that we're

getting so much done and being so productive. Yet, it can be very distracting and isolating.

And for someone who has an average of 150 Facebook friends, they can only rely on four

at a time of an emotional crisis. So if you're in the hospital, how many people are actually

going to call you or visit you? And it's not 150 Facebook friends. So it's created this illusion

that we're connected, productive, happy, yet a lot of people even put up a PR image of themselves is online, and it doesn't

reflect what they're actually experiencing, feeling, and their actual lives.

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