{"id":438,"date":"2017-08-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T15:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/i-challenge-you\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T09:29:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T15:29:49","slug":"i-challenge-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/i-challenge-you\/","title":{"rendered":"I Challenge You"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019m writing this because I believe that Coworking can help change the world one human at a time. We can make people less lonely by providing a space for community and connection.\u00a0Loneliness is at an epidemic level in our society and I believe that Coworking can help. Coworking spaces make people less lonely.\u00a0In research with Emergent Research and GCUC we found in 2015 that:<\/p>\n

83% reported feeling less lonely<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

I feel very passionate that we are in a mental health crisis and we need to rise up and help our fellow humans.\u00a0I heard about this research from Casper Ter Kuile of the Harvard Divinity School at GCUC in May and gasped:<\/p>\n

Published in the American Sociological Review (ASR) and authored by Miller McPhearson, Lynn Smith-Lovin, and Matthew Brashears, sociologists at Duke and the University of Arizona, the study featured 1,500 face-to-face interviews where more than a quarter of the respondents \u2014<\/em>\u00a0one in four\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u2014 said that they have no one with whom they can talk about their personal troubles or triumphs. If family members are not counted, the number doubles to more than half of Americans who have no one outside their immediate family with whom they can share confidences. Sadly, the researchers noted increases in \u201csocial isolation\u201d and \u201ca very significant decrease in social connection to close friends and family.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

We are so busy being connected on technology that we are disconnected in life. We\u2019re are walking into traffic because we\u2019re looking at our phones. We\u2019re killing ourselves and others while texting and driving. We\u2019re committing suicide and getting lost in addiction in record numbers. We\u2019re feeling not good enough when we see photoshopped, filtered and glamorized perfect photos on instagram. We\u2019re constantly bombarded by images and not paying attention to those right in front of us.<\/p>\n

Here are my challenges to you:<\/strong><\/p>\n