Dr. Edward Hallowell

And the next thing you know, you're problem solving. How do we get out of here?

I take issue with that point. It's all a matter of how you use it. My family, for example, uses social media to great advantage. We have a, you know, I don't know what the word for it is, but we're all on the same little platform and we send each other messages and it facilitates, deepens human connection. Now the danger is when it replaces human connection. That's the danger.

I take issue with that point. It's all a matter of how you use it. My family, for example, uses social media to great advantage. We have a, you know, I don't know what the word for it is, but we're all on the same little platform and we send each other messages and it facilitates, deepens human connection. Now the danger is when it replaces human connection. That's the danger.

I take issue with that point. It's all a matter of how you use it. My family, for example, uses social media to great advantage. We have a, you know, I don't know what the word for it is, but we're all on the same little platform and we send each other messages and it facilitates, deepens human connection. Now the danger is when it replaces human connection. That's the danger.

So it's all a matter of how you use it.

So it's all a matter of how you use it.

So it's all a matter of how you use it.

I'll tell you a quick story. Do we have time for a quick story?

I'll tell you a quick story. Do we have time for a quick story?

I'll tell you a quick story. Do we have time for a quick story?

Oh, great. Okay. Well, so I consulted some 20 years ago to the Harvard Chemistry Department because they had their most gifted graduate student committed suicide and left a note explicitly blaming Harvard. As we looked into it, the chair of the department, Jim Anderson, a wonderful man, basically put his research career on hold to figure out what was going on.

Oh, great. Okay. Well, so I consulted some 20 years ago to the Harvard Chemistry Department because they had their most gifted graduate student committed suicide and left a note explicitly blaming Harvard. As we looked into it, the chair of the department, Jim Anderson, a wonderful man, basically put his research career on hold to figure out what was going on.

Oh, great. Okay. Well, so I consulted some 20 years ago to the Harvard Chemistry Department because they had their most gifted graduate student committed suicide and left a note explicitly blaming Harvard. As we looked into it, the chair of the department, Jim Anderson, a wonderful man, basically put his research career on hold to figure out what was going on.

And we discovered it was one of many suicides in that department in the previous decade. And the reason for it was the community was horribly disconnected. It was like a dungeon. It was just, there was no connection. Everyone was paranoid. There were two coping styles, work harder or get drunk. And most people did both every day.

And we discovered it was one of many suicides in that department in the previous decade. And the reason for it was the community was horribly disconnected. It was like a dungeon. It was just, there was no connection. Everyone was paranoid. There were two coping styles, work harder or get drunk. And most people did both every day.

And we discovered it was one of many suicides in that department in the previous decade. And the reason for it was the community was horribly disconnected. It was like a dungeon. It was just, there was no connection. Everyone was paranoid. There were two coping styles, work harder or get drunk. And most people did both every day.

So you had an entire department with five Nobel Prize winners in it and some thousand brilliant little genius postdocs and graduate students miserable because they were so disconnected. So we had to figure out a way to connect them.

So you had an entire department with five Nobel Prize winners in it and some thousand brilliant little genius postdocs and graduate students miserable because they were so disconnected. So we had to figure out a way to connect them.

So you had an entire department with five Nobel Prize winners in it and some thousand brilliant little genius postdocs and graduate students miserable because they were so disconnected. So we had to figure out a way to connect them.

Now, with that group of people, really smart, often Middle European, barely English-speaking, very high IQ folks, if you said, let's have a mixer, nobody would show up because it's not in their comfort zone. And so we had to figure out how do you bait the trap? How do you bring people out of hiding? Because they were hiding. They were paranoid.