098: Making real human connection and avoiding the digital junk food version

What are you doing to make real human connection? Making Conversations about human connection Count! "Digital connection is the junk food version of real connection. So you must have boundaries within yourself that your digital following is not the same as your friends and family.." Simone Heng, Making Conversations Count - (September 2022) Psst! Low on data? Here's a lower bandwidth version for you. Avoid digital junk food and make REAL human connections! How much are you doing to proactively maintain the connections in your life? Are you hiding behind your device's screen all day, every day, or are you actually making appointments to take your conversations out into the real world. Doing so is far more important than you might think. For one thing, it helps you to avoid loneliness. Simone Heng is an expert in human connection and has written a book called The Secret Pandemic. She's also delivered a talk at Google. It's a book that's all about keeping real connections in the lonely era of an internet first community. Wendy and Simone discuss the importance of human connection in a very internet-centric 2022.   You'll learn.... Human connection with social beginnings Keeping your head down and staying safe Loneliness is always seeking the engagement Challenges of having a purpose Simone’s conversation that counts   A poignant moment from the episode: "In the book, I give this connection challenge to go through your most used messaging app in your phone, whatever that's WhatsApp. Maybe use SMS or Facebook and just go through the DMs and scroll back and think, who have I not heard from in the last six months to a year on this? And the names will pop up jog your memory. And the second source think about who tends to self isolate. So we all have friends who are introverts to extroverts on a spectrum and your introverts will tend to have made the pandemic an excuse to go deeper within themselves." Click here for the full transcript What IS Making Conversations Count? "Making Conversations Count" is a podcast from WAG Associates founder and telemarketing trainer Wendy Harris. Missed our previous episodes? You can catch up with any of the other guests we've been making conversations count with, here: https://makingconversationscount.com/episodes/ Listen to Making Conversations Count On your mobile device? Hear the conversations in your favourite platform (Apple or Spotify etc) here: https://makingconversationscount.studio/listen