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Bruce Daisley

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“These people feel really embarrassing to admit. But I think that's the secret of it. When we feel part of something, our jobs can feel defining there can feel part of our identity.”
2021-01-25 · The Diary of a CEO · The Secret To Loving Your Work with Bruce Daisley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's a 70 year long study out of Yale University looking at the secret of longevity and happiness is. And the secret of, it studied these guys for like the whole of their lives. And the secret of longevity and happiness is love and friendship. And I think work is far closer to that than we might imagine. When we feel a connection with the people we work with, it makes everything worthwhile. And I think hidden in all the chat about productivity and strategy and market fit and USPs, we lose the fact that when we feel most motivated by work, it's when we feel like we're doing it with other people. And so that's it for me. A great day at work was when I laughed 12 times. And it was almost, it felt trivial to mention that. It felt like, oh, why do you love your job? To mention that I just love these people. I love being around these people. I'm energized for them.”
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“I really want to avoid doing that. So that's why I'm sort of working hard on podcast and writing. Because if I can pay the bills doing that. You know, full time jobs are really demanding. And, you know, my social media consumptions remains, I'm a huge user of Twitter. I'm a huge user of TikTok. And so my social media consumption is still there. I just don't want to work in those organizations again. Just, you know, they're really exhausting, you know, like you work really hard. I had so much fun working at Twitter and YouTube before, but you do long days, especially working with California. Up in the morning, and you're working late at night. So, I don't want to really go and work in a big company again”
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“So I trained. The only commitment you have to do is you have to commit to spread the word. So hence, I did about all these presentations getting out and spreading the word. And that's really energizing because I think a lot of us feel a certain way towards climate but feel powerless about what can we do. So I've done a bit of that. Hopefully I've got a few more things coming along on that”
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“And he's turned his work on that into an organization. And it used to be you had to pay $7,000 to go and be trained in Las Vegas. Now he's in the era of Zoom. He said anyone could be trained on it for free.”
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“Footprint. And, you know, so there's a few things like that. And I really enjoy those things because I think they're non-linear. I think, you know, what success looks like is really hard to judge. And it's all about trying to achieve things. So I did something through October where I presented into about 100. 70 different companies presented climate change into 70 different organizations. And connections have started from that. So the Al Gore's climate reality is Al Gore did that film, an inconvenient truth about 15 years ago, probably saw it in school.”
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“Yeah, I mean, the title is A Big Ongoing Discussion, so I'm not at that station, which is just about all about the things we've talked about, how resilience is actually a collective thing rather than an individual thing. I've really enjoyed sort of doing things like that. I'm doing a couple of things on climate change. So I worked with an organization last year.”
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“I suspect these firms will be broken up. And the question then becomes, do you serve your employees better? Do you serve the people who use your apps better? Do you serve the state of society better by just going with that and saying, well, let's do it, but let's do it joyfully, get on with it. And I suspect. Personally, I think some of these organizations are going to be presented with the challenge. Some of them will go, okay, we'll break ourselves up and others will say, actually, we're going to persist with this. And just the lesson Microsoft is you lose 10 years of your life by resisting.”
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“Yeah, well, firstly, monopolies don't have to be more than 70%. I think by the rules for monopoly in the UK, it's like more than 20, 30% of a market. Oh, really? So to be monopolistic, you don't have to be dominant. Know when you've got three of the top five apps, you start questioning whether there is a degree of undue influence. Look, I've got no dog in the fight. My view personally is that.”
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“Be gaps in the market for new products here. Maybe there's a version of Twitter that's mega safe. Maybe there's a version of Instagram that just has a different aspect to it. So my view would be absolutely we've learned these things. But the notion that somehow that safety of experience should be a proprietary benefit rather than something that is afforded to everyone is just I think a bit of deception, a bit of misdirection.”
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“Misdirection, though, wasn't it? I mean, that specifically, if someone is saying we have learned, we have developed machine learning that can do these things, that sounds like a marketable product. That sounds like something that shouldn't be the point of difference. That shouldn't be your differentiator that you've got better capacity to deal with those things. But rather, that should be something that some entrepreneur avails to other firms. And I think, you know, sometimes we can get locked into an idea of thinking, oh, the narrative that we're being given is the right one here, but rather more than thinking, actually, if someone could put a layer of safety over the internet that used that machine learning to spot things that were really heinous, that used that learning to make sure that no one had a bad experience. Wow, Pinterest could use that. LinkedIn could use that. TikTok could use that. It should be something that everyone could plug into their product. And then you immediately start saying, wow, there could”
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“Is it better for a consumer? So, number one, if you own any of those shares, every time that these breakups, all of the value of the firms is worth more than the constituent parts. So from a shareholder point of view, it's a really good idea to pick the right moment but break yourself up. And it's good from a consumer point of view. I often sit there, big YouTube consumer. If you're a YouTube consumer, you going, hang on, this used to be like the big daddy of video. They've missed TikTok. They've missed Twitch. They've missed like all of these big opportunities that YouTube was right in the box seat for. They've missed all of them. Why? Because big firms generally are slow and don't innovate. And so it's better for everyone if you've got people experimenting doing new things. And, you know, if you've got a layer of regulation over the top of that, saying these degrees of norm.”
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“I think that's probably a good thing. I suspect some of the big groups will be broken up and Facebook and Google, I think, will probably be broken up. And the question will be whether they are willing to embrace that and do it and all of the shareholders and all of the users and all of the people who work there benefit or if they resist it. And the lessons of Microsoft Bill Gates and Steve Belmer will say we lost 10 years of our company because we spent 10 years resisting regulation resisting control. Had they just given up to that, they'd probably Microsoft's in a good place again, I think, biggest company in the world again. But, you know, they would have been in a better place to avoid those things. So I think regulation is probably coming. I think it's probably a good thing.”
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“Look, I think it's pretty clear that regulations coming in in some capacity, I think, to be honest, I think most of the big organizations would welcome it. When it comes to choosing to deplatform people, whether they're the president or whether they're troublemakers, having some rules that are agreed by an independent authority would be welcome for most of those platforms, I think, you know. It's really uncomfortable when organizations are losing sleep. Being on the inside is really uncomfortable when you're losing sleep about should we be doing this? Can we be doing this? How do we account for doing this? Jack Dougy did a series of tweets a couple of nights ago trying to, he's formidable, I think, trying to demystify how decisions are made. It's a no win, almost everyone who reads it will be critical of it. But, you know, he's trying to say, look, this is how we reach that decision. I think there'll be a degree of regulation.”
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“Generally, you know, I've witnessed plenty of strong opinion on both sides, likely as it was my job to try and ensure there was a degree of good conversation in those things”
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“I think it's about tonality rather than perspective. I mean, look, you know, absolutely, it's not going to play well if you're in the market for likes to say that I think we need tighter fiscal policy and less benefits for people. It's going to play differently. I wouldn't necessarily agree that the platforms have a specific bias though. I think, you know, of course.”
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“Just contributes to bad mental health. It's not a healthy place for us to live in. So, you know, I would guess that there would always be a route back for people, even if they've had a permanent ban. Jack said that. But I do think it was the right decision.”
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“Carefully, reluctantly, I think it's the right decision. I think it's the right decision. And I think the timing of it was probably right. I would be, you know, it felt... It felt at the moment it took place, it felt like the intensity of dialogue and the toxicity of dialogue was reaching such a stage that six people are already dead. It's just like this could escalate even further. And I have to say, since it's happened, it does feel to me like a bit of the stress in the room has gone. Someone said something about, I think President-elect Biden said that, you know, a natural order of things, you don't think about your leaders every day. You kind of know they're there. You've got context that they have an awareness, but, you know, this sense of peril where you're thinking about your leader and what might happen every day.”
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“What are you doing? Why are you not taking this down? And of course, you know, the first thing you've got to say is, irrespective of anyone's opinion, and that's the only way you can look at this, that this is an elected leader of a country. And so, you know, irrespective of anything else, for a private company to be saying that we take an opinion which transcends the election result is a really uncomfortable one. So I know that it would have been a really careful decision, I think a really deliberate decision. Jack's been on podcasts and in places, Joe Rogan, talking about, he believes that bans shouldn't be forever. So who's to say that, you know, there wouldn't be a route back on these things? But I do know that the decision was probably made”
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“Think knowing the people concerned that that was the last thing they wanted to be, to be in the position where they were making a decision. Angela Merkel has come out saying she feels uncomfortable with it. And I can definitely imagine that everyone in Twitter felt uncomfortable with it. It was one of those difficult things everywhere you went for the whole Trump presidency. People would say,”
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“It was a singular situation where, firstly, I saw some people on social media saying that this was an illustration that the employees of tech firms were woke. And it's just really interesting equivalence because six people died in that event. And if you watch back all the footage of what led to it, then it doesn't take a huge leap of logic to say, I can see why that created that. So six people died. And I think it was at the end of a long period where increasing numbers of the tweets by the president and the people associated were being labeled with this isn't true. And you do reach a point where a lot of critics were saying, where does your responsibility kick in here? Do you have no responsibility for what your platform is being used for?”
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“Five years before now you've got these things, so you're And so, you know, when Twitter was invented, when Twitter was invented, it was a way 15 years ago. It was a way to text all of your mates at once. And so there was a short code and it was a way, it took like your MSN Messenger status and it sent it to Text Messages. That was the idea. Before everyone had internet collection on their phone so that it feels like a different lifetime now, but just an illustration to be 15 years on from that debating whether you de-platform the most powerful, most well-known, is he the most famous person in the world? Maybe the most famous person in the world to de-platform that person is such a journey to be on. And I know the people, I mean, I know Jack, I know the other person who made the decision. And I know that they don't make any of those decisions likely, you know, it's like it's really ways on them. But to my mind.”
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“Number one, it's so incredibly hard. And I think the, I mean, I always felt lucky I worked four years at YouTube before Twitter. And the time that I worked at YouTube, there was a lot of mass shootings. And there's always mass shootings in the US. But there's a lot of mass shootings. And the phenomenon at the time was that a lot of the mass shootings, it was being discovered that the people had YouTube channels. And so I remember sitting in a meeting with lawyers in the San Bruno headquarters of YouTube, watching them. Debate what the right moral thing to do was in these fascinating to watch things that were being invented, challenges that no one had conceived of.”
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“Really interesting though because it depends. I'm intrigued then how these people pay it forward because Andre Agassi, Supreme Tennis player, great tennis player, married to the greatest up there, equal, greatest tennis players of all time. He's married to Steffie Graf. And he says that his dad bullied him constantly. His dad was never happy. The only place his dad who was a Persian Iranian cab driver could afford to own a tennis court was in Las Vegas. So they moved to Las Vegas and his dad bullied him into becoming a tennis player. And Andre Agassi, fantastic autobiography, wrote about how much he hates tennis, hates it with every single bit, every fiber in his body. And he says, I will never do to my kids what my dad did to me. And so it's like this really interesting origin of success is the thing that propels you, this driving force that propels these people who just keep going relentlessly.”
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“Behavior, but both of them have something in common. You're trying to fill that void. And so these people are fortunate that they've been gifted with this super elite talent that they can fill the void with striving for something. And the people who ends up at addicts with the same challenge don't, but they're still striving to fill that void. And so there is something in, you know, it's almost inevitable that these people who are striving for the elite accomplishment, hoping to fill this hole that sits inside them. Of course, when they get there, they realize it was all an illusion. It's like a mirage in the desert. But, you know, there is something in what you say.”
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“Super elite ones had achieved significant childhood trauma. Let's start counting the cases. So Kelly Holmes, she was bullied at school. She was the only child of mixed race ethnicity in her village. She said she experienced continual racism. Tom Daly, his father died when he was training. You look at countless examples of these things. Andy Murray was, you know, greatest British tennis player, maybe greatest British sports person. He was at the Dumblaine shooting, the only mass shooting in British history. So all of these people have experienced significant childhood trauma. And what happens is they tend to direct their energy based on what we know. They direct like they're fortunate. It was a coincidence that they were gifted supreme talent. And what you discover is childhood trauma normally correlates with addiction. So if it correlates with anything, it correlates with obsessive.”
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“I wonder there's something really fascinating. So there's a study of Olympic medalists, a British study, really fascinating piece of work. It's called the Great British Medalist Study. And it was commissioned by the British Olympic Association. So they wanted to know what was the creation of a champion. And they did this fascinating thing. They did, they gathered what they called super elite athletes. So these are athletes. You'll know them. All of them are household names. They don't name them in the study. But these people like Kelly Holmes, it's people like big iconic names. And these were people that every time they went to a championship, they would win gold or they would win, they would be right in contention. Then they took a second group and they called these elite athletes. Super elite elite. And these were people who went to championships but kind of didn't meddle or if they meddled, they meddled third. Biggest difference between them. These ones had all received.”
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“Things alongside some of the things that you've talked about that sense of feeling part of something, feeling connected to other people, I think is a more robust route to happiness than feeling like I'm on a career trajectory, even though that can, the illusion of that can be incredibly powerful”
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“It's really interesting philosophical think about that because the whole idea of the career is the invention of the last 40 years. Ancestors, grandparents, great-grandparents never had the idea of a career where I was going to be accomplishing something and developing and changing. You know, the job you were going to be doing next year was the job you were doing last year. Well done. And the job that your kids were going to do was going to be the job that you did. This idea, and it brings with it a degree of insecurity, this idea that we will be on this developmental path is a construct. Look, and it's a construct that suits the economic system we live in because it makes us all we strive to be accomplishing more than we did last year and to be earning more than we did last year. But it's a construct of the last few years. Whether it's the origin of happiness, I'm not 100% sure. If I was going to put two.”
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“Yeah, look, you know, big questions, you probably could tell us more than that. I've just put myself. Yeah, I think, you know, the critical thing about that is probably checking in with yourself and asking, you know, do I feel any sense of reward from my job? Obviously, it's not a great time for anyone right now to be debating doing something that makes them economically precarious. So you don't necessarily want to risk something that is going to put you in a difficult situation. But I think evaluating our jobs. Generally, when you look into the research, when you say to people, have you had a good day's work? It generally comes down to whether people feel pride in their organization and whether they feel like they've made meaningful progress in something they've been working on. So meaningful progress actually can be difficult right now if your job feels like you're the expert in emailing.”
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“Feels arduous. We don't necessarily enjoy it. We don't necessarily value the decisions. And you'll know as someone who's run a company where culture is the defining thing, you'll know that when you get it right, it can be this superpower. Where you're on high octane fuel compared to the energy can feel low otherwise. And so just getting those things right generally is far more about people feeling a personal connection with the people that are around, feeling like they're contributing something. These things play a really big part.”
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“Active engagement. What you find when you look into some of the stats, they're terrifying. So when you globally, an organization gallop through this workforce survey opinion poll company. And they do this workforce survey. And they say that globally, 13% of people are engaged in their jobs. When they look into it, what they mean by that is that there's almost as many people, there's about 22% of people who are actively disengage their jobs. So by actively disengaged, they kind of hate their organization. They want to bring the downfall of their organization. So anytime you meet someone on the tuber in the street, they're almost twice as likely to want to destroy their company as make it succeed. But then the vast majority of everyone else, over 50% of people are just disengaged. They're not actively disengaged. They're just passively disengaged. So work for most of us is something that sort of”
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“Never going to feel like that. Humans don't work like that. So far better to say, you know, we've got two teams that love each other, but we're working on. And there's lots of evidence of the smaller you can keep things, you almost get the economies of engagement compared to the economies of scale. That when people feel they're part of something that they're having an input into, their engagement is higher. They work more effectively. So I would say that would be the defining part, making people feel like they've got things that they're responsible for. Generally, all of those things encourage.”
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“The best thing to do. We're doing repetitive things that don't feel very rewarding. So the best thing that any of us can do is think, how can I make teams feel small and teams feel like they've got a shared sense of accomplishment and pride in what they're doing? So that's what I would be saying. What you discover is 100 is a really nice size actually. Anytime a company goes over 100, what you discover is you lose a bit of some of that camaraderie. You better almost, there's a few organizations that do this. When you go over 100, split it into two teams. That sort of cohesion you get works really well when we've got a familiarity with each other. And what happens is when you go over that, you start losing it and you think we want it to feel like it used to feel.”
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“And so, what do we know about that? We know that people felt that they were involved in, firstly, a bit of team collaboration, but secondly, they were helping solve problems. And so, you know, the whole organizations, computer sales have gone through the roof. Whole organizations that had no laptop computers. So they had to arm their teams with Kit. And so people felt really engaged by the fact that back to what we talked about earlier had some control, they had a bit of influence. So number one thing that we discover is the more that people feel that they can have an impact in their job. And it might be something similar. They're just responsible for a couple of things themselves. The more that they feel that they've got some agency, some control themselves, they feel motivated in their jobs. When do we feel unmotivated in our jobs when our boss tells us what to do, but we don't get any input into it? We don't necessarily think it's...”
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“So let's look into what happened in lockdown. The first part of lockdown most people reported that their engagement went up. And why did their engagement went up? Their engagement went up because they were solving problems. Like we'd never worked like this before. Everyone was, you know, the first moment you're getting on a Zoom call or a Google Hangout or you're getting on these things, these like, you know, even though you're in this crazy situation, there's a degree of excitement.”
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“It might be that your way to do this yourself is to make sure you've just got some downtime or you just got some time where you put music on but you turn podcasts off where you just you try and get a bit more balance in how you're using your energy”
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“I think it's about recognizing there's a yin-yang, there's a balance of work and imagination. So I always love the example of Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens obviously like incredibly productive. I think he wrote 15 novels, 200 short stories. He edited a weekly magazine about a mile from here. Sort of incredibly productive. We didn't work afternoons. And so Charles Dickens would sit down at his desk at 8 in the morning. He'd write for about four or five hours and then he'd go and walk and he'd walk 10 miles every afternoon. And that was like him lost in his thoughts, you know, striding through East London, probably sort of imagination popping. When he sat down the next day, he had loads of ideas. And I think some of us have eliminated that sort of the brain fermenting ideas. We've eliminated that a bit.”
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“He stopped thinking wow, okay, I need to think differently about being creative because creativity can then be, right, I'm sitting at my desk, I'm sort of taking all these inspiration in, stimulation ideas. But then it's about disengaging, going for a walk, going for a cycle ride, going to do a workout might be the moment where the idea hits you. And I don't think necessarily we think about that enough. You know, if you go back to this idea that your brain is a bit like your phone battery, then some of those moments that effectively can recharge your battery can be the moments where creativity hits you and inspiration hits you. So I think sort of rethinking the way that we treat a productive week of work of, you know, these blocks of work, but then moments where it might be your personal routine is you go for a walk every lunchtime.”
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“And he realized that he has all his best ideas exactly like you in the shower. He said he had, he told Hollywood Reporter magazine, he had a shower installed in the corner of his office and he has eight showers a day. And he was asked by them. He was asked by them, hang on, is this like some weird OCD thing? Said, not at all. I find that when I'll be sitting there thinking of something, trying to come up with an idea, but it's only when I disengage my brain that something comes to me. An idea comes to me. And so what you described is exactly what a lot of these people whose job it is to be creative have recognized. And as soon as you know that,”
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“Which is called the default network. But what we discover is that people generally report having their best creative ideas, not when they're frowning into their laptop screen, but when they're in these default mode situations. So you might have it in the old days, if you want to train somewhere or on a plane somewhere, loads of people, I've got a friend who says she has all her best ideas staring out the windows of planes. And so, you know, if that was you, then this year has been an uncreative year. But my favorite example of it is a really famous screamwriter called Aaron Sorkin. He's written The West Wing. He wrote, there was a film he had on Netflix just before Christmas called The Chicago Seven. He's written all these big things, very famous for zingy dialogues. He wrote The social network film, things like that, sort of, you know, really sort of really what's better than a million, a billion. He's written all these zingy lines.”
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“Neuroscience is really intriguing. The most compelling thing about neuroscience is when you look into it, neuroscientists used to work on experimenting on animals. I'm not keen on that. I was like, I was, you know, in a protest group about animal experimentation when I was younger. And they used to look at brain injury. So that used to be the main way that neuroscience worked. And it's only the last 20 years that brain scans have had any degree of sophistication. But what they've discovered in like the time that they've had brain scanners is some of the things that they presumed about the way our brain works aren't necessarily right. So let me give you one example where they used to put people in these brand new brain scanners and they would watch what the brains did. They'd give them a puzzle, they give them a Rubik's cube. Their brains would light up in these sort of different places. And then they'd notice what happened when people stopped.”
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“Yeah, I mean, look, firstly, all I ever feel in all of these situations is that I feel like I'm a vessel that's passing on other people's knowledge. So I found myself being consumed with all these things and interested in their learning. So look, let me tell you what I've discovered.”
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“Long term phoned each other every day. And when they were asked what you talked about, they said, oh, we just talked about trivial things. So I think so many of us have got into this frame of mind of thinking, well, I liked her photo. And I sent a quick WhatsApp saying, well, I sent a voice note, horrific use of technology, but they sent, but we think somehow we've serviced the relationship by doing these things. And actually, when you come down to it, and maybe future generations will be different, but it's often quite analog. It's that sense of feeling seen and appreciated. So I suspect FaceTime work the same way, but so many of us are sort of overwhelmed with these performative Zoom calls right now where he's sitting there with like a celebrity squares, a blankety blank, array of faces in front of you. And I wonder if it's that sense of being seen and being heard that probably connects.”
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“A lot of introverts like that ability to switch on the public speaking side, but I think actually the more you look into the introvert, extrovert thing, it's sort of a compartmentalization that doesn't necessarily, the vast majority of people sit somewhere in the middle of exactly. I'm the same as you. No, but these, I think, look, the point you raise is there's no easy substitute. But there is some evidence. I saw an amazing piece of research and it looked at couples who live distance relationships. So, you know, in the UK, distance relationship means you half an hour, an hour's drive from someone. In the US, it means you're like a three-hour flight. So they did a piece of research, 40,000 couples living distant relationships. And they wanted to know, so these were unmarried. So they wanted to know the ones who made it through a year. What was the thing that made it through a year? And this research was done three or four years ago. So it's not from a different era of technology. But the ones who stayed with each other for the”
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“And the endorphin levels are the people who'd rode together was twice as high as the people who'd rode alone. And, you know, you see this with choirs. People who sing in choirs, you know, you can grab strangers off the street, get them to sing some abba songs together. And you say to them at the end of it, how'd you feel? They say, I feel utterly elated. Now, that's not because singing ABBA songs on its own does it. It's because when you feel some connection with other people, even strangers, it seems to be transformational. It seems to sort of elevate our mood and all of that has been stripped from us. So, you know, if you've got, I guess you can try to do some approximations of it, but all of that has been stripped from us. And I think that's why it's inevitable that we are feeling flat energy lurse. It doesn't feel the same right now.”
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“Of feeling surrounded with someone. There's some evidence. As soon as you start looking into these things, it's extraordinary what an impact people have on each other. So these one piece of evidence went up to Oxford to meet the woman who did this research and she took groups of rowers similar to the kayaka, took groups of rows first, and there are Oxford University rows. You've seen them, the colossal, the monsters. She put the first group individually on rowing machines. Second group, she said, okay, I want you to be on a made-up boat. You know, you're going to sit on your rowing machines, but you've got to be in stroke with each other. And she wanted to see, firstly, sort of what was the different experience. What she noticed was that, firstly, they did about the same exercise. It wasn't like summer had worked harder than others, but she measured the endorphin levels. You do that by, you put these arm cuffs on people, you sort of, you subject them to pain and you see how much pain they can.”
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“All your energy. But although there's remarkable amounts of evidence on that, so there's a woman in the US called Julianne Holt Lunchstadt, who's done like a colossal survey. And she appropriates, she says loneliness is the equivalent of smoking 15 cigarettes a day. And so, you know, it has this big impact on us. And Loneless is bigger than obesity in terms of the health impact it has on you. And that's what we're going through right now. And for all of these things that we've tried to sort of create these artificial alternatives, Zoom quizzes and all manner of things like that. They just don't have the same connection.”
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“Things that we found nourishing, enriching, life affirming. A lot of them have been taken away from us. Now, the challenge go on.”
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“And you get really good evidence of how when we feel part of something bigger than us and feeling that connection, being around people is a really important part of that. It tends to enrich us. It tends to protect us. And you see really good evidence of this. You see when people go to hospital, if they have like a heart operation or they have something serious, when they come out of hospital, the people who reported that they were part of groups before, their chance of survival, their chance of avoiding depression is massively higher than those who live in isolation. And look, that's the experiment we're going through right now. You might have wonderful friends that are at the end of a Zoom line or a messenger link or a WhatsApp. But if you're not around them, to some extent some of the energy we get from them is dissipating. And I think that's the challenge that a lot of us are in right now. It's just a very lonely existence we've got now.”
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