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Body & mind 30 min

The Loneliness Paradox

We can reach anyone, anywhere, instantly. So why are we lonelier than ever?

We live in the most connected era in human history, and yet every major loneliness study from the last decade tells the same story: people feel more isolated than they have in generations, and the youngest adults feel it worst. The psychology of belonging has specific requirements, ones humans figured out over millennia and then, very recently, stopped meeting. This is not a story about screens.

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