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I spoke to an old therapist friend today, and finally understood why everyone’s so exhausted after the video calls. It’s the plausible deniability of each other’s absence. Our minds tricked into the idea of being together when our bodies feel we’re not. Dissonance is exhausting.
It’s easier being in each other’s presence, or in each other’s absence, than in the constant presence of each other’s absence.
Our bodies process so much context, so much information, in encounters, that meeting on video is being a weird kind of blindfolded. We sense too little and can’t imagine enough. That double deprivation requires a lot of conscious effort.
on Twitter, April 4, 2020
Gianpiero Petriglieri, M.D.
E-mail: Gianpiero.Petriglieri@insead.edu
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