Unsettled reality check

Getting to the complex concept of reality check , that is this phenomena of social connection. Just being around other people makes us happier than all the things we do to worry about our problem sets and worry about all that stuff. Like, it seems to matter a lot more than we think.It’s not the stuff, but it turns out it is, it seems, social connection. Just how much do you hang out with people that you’re close with? Having close ties with people – having a social connection is good for all kinds of health related stuff. It can actually make you less vulnerable to premature death. So, if I look at whether or not you’re going to die, if you’re an elderly person, you have more social connections, you tend not to. It can make you more likely to survive a fatal illness like cancer or heart disease and so on. And it makes you less likely to fall prey to the sorts of stressful events that mess up your life. All kinds of health consequences to social connection. there’s also all kinds of happiness consequences too, at least when you look at who’s happy, who’s unhappy merely just spending time with people can allow me to predict whether or not you’re going to be happy or unhappy. Happiness or sadness cannot just be predicted by looking at them , it doesn’t go around the same way not all the time , at least !

But here’s the question, is this really the case? Can we kind of intervene on people’s lives, give them more of close social connections, and increase their happiness?you’re in the solitude condition. Your goal is to just like, be like, enjoy solitude, a lot of people love solitude, just be quiet, be by yourself, and just like, try to enjoy as much as possible. Or you’re in a control.It’s only in the solitude condition, and interestingly, in the control condition where people seem to feel worse.Solitude subject is not the only solution for all your loneliness temper tantrums , we think that that might be kind of a mechanism of why a social connection is doing all of its work. It’s just making the richness of life even richer among other sorts of things that it’s doing. Reading the room and reality check has got all these things up which remains unsettled for many reasons.