754 - The Need to Connect
Tiny Leaps, Big Changes
Gregg Clunis
4.3 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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In this episode, we look at the need to connect. Get excited, because this is Tiny Leaps, Big Changes.
Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps, Big Changes where I share research-backed strategies you can use, to get more out of your life. My name is Gregg Clunis.
Join us in a raw and vulnerable conversation with Gregg about his personal experience with connections along with helpful tips you can use to form new connections.
Key Takeaways:
- There is a fundamental need for human connection.
- Technology and the global pandemic has made it difficult to form new connections.
- By keeping in touch with friends and colleagues online you miss the day to day moments.
- Online connections can be a perpetual cycle of catching up.
- There is some mutual context for forming connections.
- Mutual contexts make it easier to connect with others.
- These can be school, work, or extracurricular activities.
- Even though it is going to be painful and frustrating, you must keep putting in effort to form connections because eventually you will find your people.
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode, we look at the need to connect. |
| 0:05.0 | Get excited because this is tiny leaps. |
| 0:10.0 | Big change. Welcome to another episode of Tiny Loaves. Big changes. Why share simple research-backed |
| 0:37.3 | strategies you can use to get more out of your life. My name is Greg Klunis and there is a fundamental need for human |
| 0:47.2 | connection. This is something that I think we all know on some level. We all |
| 0:52.3 | need, we crave connection to other people, connection to the |
| 0:57.4 | community around us, connection to the group that we identify as part, or rather a need for a group to identify as part of. |
| 1:08.4 | In fact, in his first book, UCLA Psychology Professor Matthew Lieberman calls it, quote, |
| 1:15.3 | our brain's lifelong passion. |
| 1:18.4 | And he goes on to say that it's, quote, been baked into our operating system for tens of millions of years. |
| 1:26.2 | It's something that we can't avoid but it's really easy to feel like we can avoid it |
| 1:31.8 | because it's really hard and honestly it's something |
| 1:37.5 | that we have to push through something that we have to get for ourselves it's a |
| 1:42.1 | fundamental need but it is really, really difficult and as a result it's easy to just sort of like turtle up and feel like, well, you know what, I don't need it or just not for me or I'm just I'm an introvert so maybe it like I don't need it as much and no |
| 1:58.9 | matter how introverted you are unfortunately you do still need it. |
| 2:02.8 | Trust me, I'm speaking from experience there. |
| 2:06.0 | And it's only getting harder because of increases in, quite honestly, |
| 2:10.4 | technology, tools that are designed to make us more social. |
| 2:14.1 | Things like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, all of these social media platforms. |
| 2:18.2 | They are filled with faux conversation, faux authenticity, and foe connection. |
| 2:24.4 | It's about making you feel connected even though you're not. |
| 2:28.7 | Yes, you might know what's going on, |
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