So today I have kind of a funny one for you, kind of an interesting one.

I wonder if you guys will go here with me.

Today I'm going to talk about why we need to be more interesting as a community.

Now I'm including myself in this and it is not

an accusation at all. Let me tell you how I came to this topic, why I think it's important to talk

about and why I put together a list of things that I think we can do. Number one is my brain rot is so bad because I spend so much time on the

internet. You know, I spoke a lot with Taylor Stracker about this, about phone addiction. And I think

I've come to the conclusion that like we can't really stop phone addiction. We're probably not going

to stop using social media. But, you know, it's something to be aware of.

It's, I don't feel comfortable with this addiction.

I don't really like how I feel when I'm fully just like, you know, TikTok, six hours a day,

Instagram all the time, whatever.

So, and I think that that's true for everybody, where, you know, we see a decline in our attention spans.

We see, you know, that we're not really

reading articles anymore. We're just reading the first paragraph. And I think that this has a lot of

negative knock-on effects for us in our everyday life. And I think one of them is that we become less

interesting. Yeah, sure, we can talk about TikToks all day long and we can talk

about trends and, you know, Instagrams that we saw. But how deep do those conversations really go?

Like, how deep can they go? Yeah, for sure. Sometimes TikToks spark a really interesting debate,

and I love those. But I'm talking about deeper conversation deeper conversation now I think that this is going to be

different depending on how old you are if you're a millennial like me you likely remembered a time when

you would have very deep conversations with your friend group for hours without phones and like I

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