How to End an Empathy Connection

If we're not problem solving, I guess you could also just be totally zoned out. And there's research that's showing just the presence of a mobile phone on a table. It actually distracts you somewhat by 50%. So it's like the old fashioned, you know, go to a cocktail party and you're looking over somebody else's shoulder. Just that phone as a distraction is a real empathy breaker too. That's right. Because I always wonder because it feels so big in my pocket when I sit down at the lunch table, where should I stick it? Where should I put it? Okay. You've heard about this research. But I don't want to put it

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