How to create meaningful connections while apart with Priya Parker

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Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 5 April 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Author Priya Parker shares tools for creating meaningful connections with friends, family and coworkers during the coronavirus pandemic -- and shows how we can take advantage of gatherings that are unique to this moment of social distancing. “We don’t necessarily need to gather more,” she says. “We need to gather better.” This virtual conversation is part of the TED Connects series, hosted by Chris and current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers. It was recorded on March 27, 2020. To learn more, visit go.ted.com/tedconnects

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.0	Hello there, I'm Chris Anderson, welcome to the Ted interview and another episode seeking
0:16.2	to make sense of these strange times that we're in right now.
0:20.3	So as you all know, our lives are completely different from just a few weeks ago.
0:25.0	Many of us are isolated in some form rather at home.
0:28.4	And I guess this is going to last for a while.
0:31.4	We're just going to have to get used to a new way to be and new ways of connecting.
0:35.9	We can't actually be isolated.
0:37.3	We're human beings, we're a social species, we have to connect to other people somehow.
0:41.9	We just have to.
0:42.9	And factfully, there are many ways we can still do that.
0:46.3	Many beautiful ways.
0:47.3	Plus, many ways we're discovering.
0:50.5	So we're going to spend this hour devoted to that.
0:53.3	My colleague, Whitney Pennington Rogers, our current investigator, is speaking with
0:57.5	Priya Parker.
0:59.1	For the last 15 years, Priya has been studying how to create meaningful relationships
1:04.0	and gatherings.
1:05.0	She recently published a great book, The Art of Gathering.
1:09.4	They'll be talking about how we can develop and maintain meaningful connections no matter
1:13.9	how distant we are.
1:16.0	Actually Priya had some technical connection issues today, so she ended up logging in
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