Stop Ignoring People With Your Technology

Phones, headphones, and distraction, are hindrances to a better life

The unique situation we find ourselves in today is that we can ignore people with our technology.

Nowadays, we ignore people without even knowing we are ignoring them.

We walk down the street with headphones in our ears. We sit in waiting rooms and scroll on our phones.

These behaviors are not just rude, they are distracting. Literally, you are distracting yourself from the world around you.

I don’t think it is too big of a conjecture to say that most of our anxiety, stress, and worry is a result of us living in our heads.

When you are distracted from the world, you are living in your head; when you are living in your head, you overestimate the dangers of the world.

An overlooked quality of the face-to-face conversation is that it brings both participants into the present.

Talking is an active experience. To speak well, you have to actively react and adjust your speech to the ways the person you are speaking to is reacting to your speech, and so on.

An overabundance of thought, the kind that leads to worry, is nonexistent while you are talking.

Conversation is not only an art, but one of the best things in life.

The sad reality we find ourselves in is that we have all become introverts, inadvertently from our tools of social media.

How common is it to see two young lovers at a McDonald’s table, not looking each other in the eyes, both looking at their phones?

How much better would it be for them to connect with one another, closer, rather than with someone or something faraway?

How common is it to see people with AirPods listening to music while the gym speakers are already playing music? I say, listen to your own music when you are alone.

While you are at a gym, surrounded by strangers — or potential friends — listen to the same music as everyone else.

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