I Need More Human Contact
Filed in Health on Dec 26 2006 | 1 comment
Here’s my typical workday. I awaken at 7 or 8 am and work on my computer till about 5:00 p.m. Exciting, right? On occasion, I’ll speak to a client or potential client on the telephone, but other than that, it’s just me, my computer and my parakeets all day long (not that my parakeets are great company, mind you, but they are there).
Now, I’m no fool. I know that’s not healthy; at least not for me. Most people need belly-to-belly human contact. What I didn’t know, however, was that my hermit-like behavior is probably the reason I feel tired all the time.
Penelope Trunk shares this interesting tidbit in her post, Productivity tip: Face-to-face contact energizes your brain:
“The need to have regular human moments at work is similar to the need to stand up and stretch on an airplane: Your well-being depends on it. On top of that, a workday with regular face-to-face contact is more energizing than a day full of contacts exclusively via computer and phone.”
The real question is what to do about it. I suppose I need to set up some sort of system to have at least a little human contact each day. Hey, maybe I could get a cleaning lady to come over every day, hang out with me for a couple of hours and even clean my pad.
This is the personal blog of Michael Pollock, a 40-year-old single dad, runner, 
Hi, Michael. Congratulations on the new blog launch, and thanks for linking to my post. I was getting ready to send an email to you to say that this blog design is gorgeous, but after clicking around I realized that you are a professional blog designer. So you must know this blog is gorgeous. Still, I am in the process of my own redesign, and the number of design problems I encounter is amazing, and it’s fun to see how you’ve solved so many of the problems I’m mulling over. So. What a beautiful blog you have designed :)
Penelope