Actress Jennifer Aniston (53) wants to break a lance for good old telephoning. While most people today prefer to communicate via chat or at most send voice messages, she swears by real dialogue – more precisely: 8-minute phone calls. TECHBOOK tells the whole story.
Jennifer Aniston Apparently Reads The Well NewsletterNYTimes“. As part of “The 7 Day Happinnes Challenge”, he has been flushing a small task to his subscribers’ inboxes every day since the beginning of the new year. Doing them is supposed to help you become happier, because they all aim to strengthen private ties. One of the tasks: 8-minute phone calls.
Jennifer Aniston swears by 8 minute phone calls
Aniston linked a related post on her Instagram story. In it, the “NY Times” describes “the secret power of 8-minute phone calls”. On the other line should be people who you may not have seen in a while or who you had to think of spontaneously. The task is not to think long and hard about the best time to reach this person, but simply to pick up the phone. The interview should then last as exactly eight minutes as possible.
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Why exactly eight minutes?
Eight-minute phone calls are long enough to create an emotional connection with the person you are talking to, but still of manageable duration to find a place in stressful everyday life. That’s how the newspaper explains it.
In fact, at least in Germany, people are on the phone for much longer. According to extra it is an average of 46 minutes a day, with women phoning a little longer and men a little less. And only for private conversations.
Recommended by psychiatrists
Incidentally, The 7 Day Happiness Challenge is based on that Study of Adult Development from Harvard Medical School, the most extensive scientific work on the topic of happiness ever carried out. The American psychiatrist and Harvard professor Dr. Bob Waldinger translated some of the study findings into concrete tasks and compiled them into a book, including the 8-Minute Phone Calls picked up by NY Times and posted by Jennifer Aniston.
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according to dr Waldinger, many people in our always busy society hoped to eventually have a “surplus of time” that would give space in an indefinite future to finally meet up with old friends again. “But that may not happen,” said the doctor. Therefore: don’t waste any time and get on the phone!