In 2019, Signa Health conducted a global survey with over 20,000 participants. Here is a quick snapshot of what they learned.
Half of all surveyed reported that either always or sometimes they felt alone.
Only one-half of those surveyed have meaningful social interaction daily
The Gen-Z’s (18 somethings) are the loneliest generation. They are claiming poorer mental/emotional health than Seniors/Elders.
Loneliness was already and epidemic before the pandemic.
Consider what has changed in our world……
13yrs ago smartphones were scarce in terms of today’s abundance 80% of world’s population has a smart phone.
Positive aspects of this truth – accessibility and availability
Negative aspects of this truth – accessibility and availability
Because we can be all-consumed in the digital world, we are hindered from being fully present in key moments of life.
Technology Free Zones are now a thing.
Social platforms allow us to present a “faux” image without ever being authentic.
We are missing the joy of being fully loved, fully excepted, and fully known for who we are.
Our attention span has shrunk – 12-week groups are now 3–4-week groups
We are witnessing the death of conversation.
Social interaction is nothing more than an FB post, Memes, and Snap-chats moments.
Consider the following resource: www.groupleaders.org
It is obvious there are a lot of changes in our world. But do we simply shrug our shoulders as if that is all there is to be said? What are we missing? What if I told you that what is missing is as old as civilization itself. Since the Garden with Adam and Eve there has been a struggle between forces of Good and Forces of Evil. This is a major starting presupposition that we seemingly are uneasy to talk about. “We are so enlightened these day” we say to ourselves. Yet the belly of civilization has true pure unadulterated evil at its core.
We are attempting to rewrite the Law of Noncontradiction which says that something cannot be true and false at the same time in the same way. This is a way to think about reality. However, this does not suggest that people cannot have differing emotions about an experience. Differing emotions does not settle a matter, this is part of subjective reality. What is true for you may not be true for me. Subjective Reality cannot stand under its own weight because of the constant changing emotional state of people over time.
Leading in difficult times will be emotional. Your decisions as a leader must remain objective. Simply because of the outcry of the many does not give authority that something subjective is now objective. Instead, it affirms more that which is subjective shifts with time because of inconsistency.
Great leaders STRETCH toward a challenge. Followers SHRINK from a challenge.
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