Noreena Hertz || How to Restore Human Connection
The Psychology Podcast
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4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Today it’s great to chat with Noreena Hertz on the podcast. Noreena Hertz is a renowned thought leader, academic, and broadcaster, named by The Observer “one of the world’s leading thinkers” and by Vogue “one of the world’s most inspiring women.” Her previous bestsellers — The Silent Takeover, The Debt Threat, and Eyes Wide Open — have been published in more than twenty countries, and her opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and Financial Times. She has hosted her own show on SiriusXM and spoken at TED, the World Economic Forum in Davos, and Google Zeitgeist.
Topics
· The impact of technology on our social lives
· How to boost the health of our society
· The importance of local communities
· “The loneliness economy”
· The healthcare burden of loneliness
· Combating loneliness in the workplace
· How to give and receive care
· “Blue zones"
· How creating community helps our wellbeing
· How to create communities for the elderly
· Innovative methods to combat loneliness
· How artificial intelligence can address loneliness
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| 0:00.0 | Today it's great to chat with Narina Hertz on the podcast. |
| 0:17.9 | Narina is a renowned thought leader, academic and broadcaster named by the observer as one |
| 0:23.2 | of the world's leading thinkers and by Vogue as one of the world's most inspiring women. |
| 0:28.6 | Her previous bestseller, the silent takeover, the death threat and eyes wide open have |
| 0:32.6 | been published in more than 20 countries and her opinion pieces have appeared in the |
| 0:36.2 | New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and Financial |
| 0:39.9 | Times. |
| 0:40.9 | She has hosted her own show on Sirius XM and Spoken at Ted, The World Economic Forum |
| 0:45.5 | in Davos, and Google'site Geist. |
| 0:48.4 | Her latest book is called The Lonely Century, How to Restore Human Connection in a World |
| 0:53.1 | That's Pulling Apart. |
| 0:54.7 | Narina, I'm really excited to chat with you today. |
| 0:57.4 | Oh, I'm so happy to be on your show. |
| 1:00.4 | Really I was looking forward, really having a look at this talk for a long time. |
| 1:04.7 | Well, such a timely and important book, as you know, I mean, why did you, will we ask |
| 1:09.6 | you, why did you write this book? |
| 1:12.3 | So it was three separate things happening at roughly the same time about four years |
| 1:18.7 | ago. |
| 1:19.7 | First, it was my students, more and more students were coming into my office in office hours |
| 1:26.5 | and confiding in me that they were feeling lonely and isolated. |
| 1:30.6 | And I've been teaching at university for about 20 years on and off. |
| 1:34.3 | I hadn't seen, you know, I hadn't seen this phenomenon and definitely not in the numbers |
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