Listener Picks: How To Make The Most Of Your Neighborhood
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🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The Surgeon General's advisory underscores the negative impacts that loneliness and isolation have on our mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
One way to offset the negative impacts of loneliness and isolation can be simply saying hello to your neighbors, according to a 2023 Gallup poll.
It's a simple practice — taking as little as seconds to minutes of conversation to get a quick chat in.
For this installment of our "Listner Picks" series, we discuss how we can we be a good neighbor in a time of isolation.
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| 0:14.5 | Learn more at concur.com. Every year we put together a week of conversations suggested by you. |
| 0:29.0 | For today's installment of our listener picks series we're discussing how to be a good neighbor. |
| 0:35.0 | You've probably heard about it from some familiar voices. |
| 0:37.6 | Don't worry Ernie, I'm on Oscar by help you find him. |
| 0:41.0 | You will? |
| 0:41.6 | We will. Of course we will. We will and his friends and neighbors and good neighbors help each other. |
| 0:48.0 | But what does it really mean to be a good neighbor? That was Heather's suggestion for us. |
| 0:54.3 | Neighbors are fundamental to developing our identities as people and as parents and |
| 1:02.4 | as partners. the personal nature of having a neighbor who is experiencing as close |
| 1:10.2 | to reality as you are as possible at the same time that you are. I fear that the loss of that |
| 1:17.0 | connection with real quote unquote normal people and how we learn from them is more important to who we become as people and as part of the future society |
| 1:27.4 | than the other ways that it seems like we are developing identities lately. |
| 1:32.3 | Heather, thanks for suggesting today's show. we are developing identities lately. |
| 1:33.0 | Heather, thanks for suggesting today's show. |
| 1:35.2 | So does it really matter if we connect with our neighbors |
| 1:38.7 | and how can we try to build those bridges? |
| 1:41.2 | I'm Jen White. |
| 1:42.1 | You're listening to the one-day |
| 1:43.1 | podcast where we get to the heart of the story. We'll be back with our |
| 1:46.4 | conversation after this short break. |
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