It's sad to hear the hopelessness in this young man's voice, and your advice offers a solid starting point. My husband Peco and I are presenting a keynote speech this weekend at the Doomer Optimism Gathering and are addressing exactly this question. When we return, we'll share our presentation "How to unmachine your life, the universe & everything", which offers practical insights into living a life of meaning and connection. Stay tuned...
We are definitely more isolated and don’t see each other in person like before Covid, but I’m seeing and noticing in the last year how much people thrive when they do activités together in person, it might be playing a board game together, singing in a choir, hiking, or I’m even seeing meetups to read together in a local coffee shop!
I hope we all start waking up and realizing that our baseline is being human and not sitting in front of screen all the time.
There seems to be a slow awakening taking place at the moment. I've certainly noticed it within my circle of family and friends. We're social animals and we can sense something is wrong when we're isolated.
You forgot one of the basics which is to pay in cash whenever you can rather than paying by phone, card or whatever. Every time you pay digitally, the bank and/or the platform scrapes a bit of the cash off. While it may only be few cents per transaction, there's one hell of a lot of transactions and it adds up to billions in profits for the cash-rich banks/platforms we love to hate.
This why it irks me whenever I see someone pay for a cup of coffee with a phone/card and why i gtet angry whenever I see someone paying a small amount digitally. Why not simply pay cash and stop the bank getting a slice that only goes towards rich bankers' bonuses? Why not do the same for any small transaction.
The banks want all transactions, however small, to move online so they get a slice of every transaction and extract more wealth from the pot that ordinary people have. They're hoovering up wealth!
Spend cash not card. Its one of the most radical and transformative things you can do! (Its also worth remembering that is more social. Keeps wealth and value in the community/locally. Also, think about how you interact with the shopkeeper in the two types of tranaction. When you spend cash you look at the person who's taking it from you and you have the chance of a smile and a conversation. When you tap a card or phone, you look at the phone. AT best its a-social - at worst its antisocial.
I would add, pay cash for everything, but have a credit card only to make reservations (gotta be in the world, but not of it). If you can't pay cash for it, don't buy it or go on that trip till you do.
To paraphrase Dickens, "Expenses $19.99, income $20.00, happiness. Expenses $20.01, income $20.00, misery."
I would start with a very basic one, acknowledge people when you pass them. I live in a 36 unit apartment building in SF where a two bedroom apt is now going for about $5,600 a month and quickly rising with the influx of AI fortune seekers. The turnover of young people in their 20's early 30's is almost constant, and I assume they all work in tech of some sort as they're the only ones who can afford that. My wife and I are retired and in a rent controlled apt. When walking past anyone there is seldom any acknowledgement at all. They just walk by like we're not there , and if you say "hi" many react like you have just accosted them. It's not just us as other tenants have remarked on the same thing. It's not every new tenant , but enough that it's really noticeable.
The same change is taking place walking on the sidewalk in the neighborhood, where once people would smile or nod their head, but now there is seldom any eye contact and often clear none is desired. Similar behavior is displayed when buying coffee or food to go, though more often they are having food delivered rather than going out. I have friends who are still working and have noticed many young people they have hired have problems just making eye contact, and are seriously lacking in social skills to interact with others.
It's as though they have missed a fundamental development stage which was replaced by interacting on their phones, mostly through text, rather than face to face or at least talking to someone. COVID is not the blame as this was already showing up long before Covid came around. They almost need a remedial class in how to relate to people. The suggestions about getting involved in groups is great , but start by SEEING people in your everyday activities. The kids are not alright.
I've been working to help save democracy for a number of years now. I run into very few Gen Z people who are doing the same thing. I've asked some why that is; usually I don't even get an answer. I follow a couple young musicians who are cheerful, working hard, and making other people happier with their music and by being positive. They help me have a place of peace to go to.
I think it's hard to do this when you have no vehicle, money, lost connections/friendships due to work or families, and especially after COVID, isolation becomes normalized, even if it drives one crazy at times. AI has left us no choices, no jobs, and at 43, I'm too tired and stubborn to quit what I love.
You've given some great advice. I volunteer at an animal sanctuary on a farm for this reason. Another volunteer there is an LA area college professor who teaches screenwriting. She told me her students are really suffering from hopelessness. She sees it in their body language. But they tell her their experiences and worries, as well. Her students have the added worry over the state of movie industry in Hollywood, where they've dreamed of working. AI is not helping their fears, on top of all the other Hollywood and beyond problems.
We both believe we need to get back to organic connection, creating and innovating with human energy... whatever that means. I began to think of my theater experiences and how thrilling it is to create in that atmosphere... Live, sparking with an energy no virtual AI generated production could ever match.
Go to your local library and walk up and down the stacks and look for a good book.
If you can’t find one go to the biography section and look for a person you admire or want to know more about. There are biographies on an amazing number of people.
Take a few books out at a time. If you take out a book but don’t like it then there will be another one on hand to try out.
Sadly, I almost never see young people at my county library.
That’s not good because if you do not regularly read books, you will not write or think as well as you could. By not reading books you are only limiting your own potential.
If you’re reading a book you’re not online. If you get distracted trying to read at home, just read at the library.
That's a good article... Heavy .. I like the list of things that an app won't get you... I'm a single older dad, my daughter is nearly 20 and I think about this stuff a lot just intuitively... Back at that age one day my mom came to me uncharacteristically weeping and told me she was sorry about the state of the world... The chaos and Nam and Watergate, all that... I awkwardly tired to console here, todo bien mamá... As I recall I wanted to go out with my buds and look for girls or whatever, to rock out, to be young and the world for me was as it was, I hadn't deep dove into history or whatever... It's good to let the kids be young and sort of carefree...i told mom not to worry for me and that she wasn't to blame for the state of the world...But the offshore fog banks loomed and have loomed and will loom... Good article, got me thinking
I share Ted's distrust of the AI crowd, but I highly recommend young people, and people of all ages concerned about AI, watch this 2-day old podcast interview of Trump's Crypto/AI Czar, David Sacks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uho2GupZSgU
Sacks has his finger on the pulse and truly understands the concerns and risks--Orwellian (his term)--and the upside. It's not all dark inside the Silicon Valley/Washington D.C. bubble.
Also, every single haxxed on the planet should sue Pfizer and Moderna for deliberately hiding human DNA plasmids in their vaccines, and Pfizer, for injecting an undisclosed carcinogenic monkey virus (SV40) sequence in the clueless biohacked, as officially recognized by Health Canada and Slovakia!
You’ve been lockdowned for nothing? Johns Hopkins meta-analysis of 18000 studies proved that, and worse, killed people by preventing testing and treatment for cancer and heart:
No Health Agency researched the 30+ COVID effective cures, but instead censored and banned the doctors successfully curing COVID? A cure would void the Emergency Use Authorization of the lethal experimental COVID “vaccines”?
60 million people killed by the lethal injections? Excess deaths even higher now by the vax-induced thrombosis, myocarditis, cancer and auto-immune pandemics? More casualties than WW1, WW2, and Nam combined:
(caveat: pot destroys your brain + “Raises Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke”)
9/11: two "planes", yet 8 towers down. WTC7 imploded, free falling on its footprint, in a controlled demolition. It was out of reach as well as the unblemished Deutsche Bank, which with all 7 World Trade Center towers needed to be rebuilt, not the closer towers not belonging to WTC ...
The “owner” took an insurance policy for the WTC against terrorism, months before, when no one was taking them … he didn’t show up for work on 9/11 … just as his 2 grown up siblings.
The fore-knowledge of the 9/11 event allowed masons to make trillions by shorting the stock exchange: the records were deleted by the SEC so they wouldn't be prosecuted !!!
There's a plan to slow-murder 95% of the global population by 2050… written on the masonic Georgia guide-stones: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 … ”:
2. There's proof of deliberate geoengineering to increase global temperatures and droughts, and decrease albedo by dissolving clouds with chemtrails and microwaves from satellites, weather radars and 5G.
3. Life involves a carbon cycle. A war on carbon is a war on life, causing crop/food scarcity, increase in food prices and famines. Decarbonization is part of the plan to exterminate 95% of us.
President John Quincy Adams: “Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.”
As a former coder and eventually head of IT, I disagree with the "forget coding" comment. Understanding the foundation that AI is built upon seems very important to me. Coding as a full time job may fade but those who develop AI will still need to understand what AI does. I will compare it to robotic surgery. The human surgeon still has to understand what the robot assistant will do.
Having employed youngsters (well almost everyone is to me) the two key things that are different and may well be helpful to a younger generations outlook are (a) to get away from the tech that seems to capture your social and other time (b) put yourself in situations where face to face social is the thing.
Communication skills are imho the #1 skill gap amongst the younger generations. (Sending an email / dM etc is not that).
It's sad to hear the hopelessness in this young man's voice, and your advice offers a solid starting point. My husband Peco and I are presenting a keynote speech this weekend at the Doomer Optimism Gathering and are addressing exactly this question. When we return, we'll share our presentation "How to unmachine your life, the universe & everything", which offers practical insights into living a life of meaning and connection. Stay tuned...
We are definitely more isolated and don’t see each other in person like before Covid, but I’m seeing and noticing in the last year how much people thrive when they do activités together in person, it might be playing a board game together, singing in a choir, hiking, or I’m even seeing meetups to read together in a local coffee shop!
I hope we all start waking up and realizing that our baseline is being human and not sitting in front of screen all the time.
There seems to be a slow awakening taking place at the moment. I've certainly noticed it within my circle of family and friends. We're social animals and we can sense something is wrong when we're isolated.
You forgot one of the basics which is to pay in cash whenever you can rather than paying by phone, card or whatever. Every time you pay digitally, the bank and/or the platform scrapes a bit of the cash off. While it may only be few cents per transaction, there's one hell of a lot of transactions and it adds up to billions in profits for the cash-rich banks/platforms we love to hate.
This why it irks me whenever I see someone pay for a cup of coffee with a phone/card and why i gtet angry whenever I see someone paying a small amount digitally. Why not simply pay cash and stop the bank getting a slice that only goes towards rich bankers' bonuses? Why not do the same for any small transaction.
The banks want all transactions, however small, to move online so they get a slice of every transaction and extract more wealth from the pot that ordinary people have. They're hoovering up wealth!
Spend cash not card. Its one of the most radical and transformative things you can do! (Its also worth remembering that is more social. Keeps wealth and value in the community/locally. Also, think about how you interact with the shopkeeper in the two types of tranaction. When you spend cash you look at the person who's taking it from you and you have the chance of a smile and a conversation. When you tap a card or phone, you look at the phone. AT best its a-social - at worst its antisocial.
So, Gen Z, spend cash and help save humanity!
I like this!
I would add, pay cash for everything, but have a credit card only to make reservations (gotta be in the world, but not of it). If you can't pay cash for it, don't buy it or go on that trip till you do.
To paraphrase Dickens, "Expenses $19.99, income $20.00, happiness. Expenses $20.01, income $20.00, misery."
I would start with a very basic one, acknowledge people when you pass them. I live in a 36 unit apartment building in SF where a two bedroom apt is now going for about $5,600 a month and quickly rising with the influx of AI fortune seekers. The turnover of young people in their 20's early 30's is almost constant, and I assume they all work in tech of some sort as they're the only ones who can afford that. My wife and I are retired and in a rent controlled apt. When walking past anyone there is seldom any acknowledgement at all. They just walk by like we're not there , and if you say "hi" many react like you have just accosted them. It's not just us as other tenants have remarked on the same thing. It's not every new tenant , but enough that it's really noticeable.
The same change is taking place walking on the sidewalk in the neighborhood, where once people would smile or nod their head, but now there is seldom any eye contact and often clear none is desired. Similar behavior is displayed when buying coffee or food to go, though more often they are having food delivered rather than going out. I have friends who are still working and have noticed many young people they have hired have problems just making eye contact, and are seriously lacking in social skills to interact with others.
It's as though they have missed a fundamental development stage which was replaced by interacting on their phones, mostly through text, rather than face to face or at least talking to someone. COVID is not the blame as this was already showing up long before Covid came around. They almost need a remedial class in how to relate to people. The suggestions about getting involved in groups is great , but start by SEEING people in your everyday activities. The kids are not alright.
I've been working to help save democracy for a number of years now. I run into very few Gen Z people who are doing the same thing. I've asked some why that is; usually I don't even get an answer. I follow a couple young musicians who are cheerful, working hard, and making other people happier with their music and by being positive. They help me have a place of peace to go to.
I think it's hard to do this when you have no vehicle, money, lost connections/friendships due to work or families, and especially after COVID, isolation becomes normalized, even if it drives one crazy at times. AI has left us no choices, no jobs, and at 43, I'm too tired and stubborn to quit what I love.
I felt this sense of hopelessness not so long ago. Media fasts helped and joining a writing group at my local library helped break the sense of isolation. I wouldn't worry about AI - it's pretty useless without human guidance and oversight. It can't even run something as simple as vending machine: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/28/anthropics-claude-ai-became-a-terrible-business-owner-in-experiment-that-got-weird/
Just beautiful, Ted.
You've given some great advice. I volunteer at an animal sanctuary on a farm for this reason. Another volunteer there is an LA area college professor who teaches screenwriting. She told me her students are really suffering from hopelessness. She sees it in their body language. But they tell her their experiences and worries, as well. Her students have the added worry over the state of movie industry in Hollywood, where they've dreamed of working. AI is not helping their fears, on top of all the other Hollywood and beyond problems.
We both believe we need to get back to organic connection, creating and innovating with human energy... whatever that means. I began to think of my theater experiences and how thrilling it is to create in that atmosphere... Live, sparking with an energy no virtual AI generated production could ever match.
Last nights wins for democrats are a DEFINITE sign for hope for Gen z—hang in there.
But additional note on AI—it’s a lot of hype that was forced on us to justify huge investments. It’s proven to be SLOP and the bubble will break.
Break soon, I pray. But that might just take the economy with it when it does pop.
Go to your local library and walk up and down the stacks and look for a good book.
If you can’t find one go to the biography section and look for a person you admire or want to know more about. There are biographies on an amazing number of people.
Take a few books out at a time. If you take out a book but don’t like it then there will be another one on hand to try out.
Sadly, I almost never see young people at my county library.
That’s not good because if you do not regularly read books, you will not write or think as well as you could. By not reading books you are only limiting your own potential.
If you’re reading a book you’re not online. If you get distracted trying to read at home, just read at the library.
That's a good article... Heavy .. I like the list of things that an app won't get you... I'm a single older dad, my daughter is nearly 20 and I think about this stuff a lot just intuitively... Back at that age one day my mom came to me uncharacteristically weeping and told me she was sorry about the state of the world... The chaos and Nam and Watergate, all that... I awkwardly tired to console here, todo bien mamá... As I recall I wanted to go out with my buds and look for girls or whatever, to rock out, to be young and the world for me was as it was, I hadn't deep dove into history or whatever... It's good to let the kids be young and sort of carefree...i told mom not to worry for me and that she wasn't to blame for the state of the world...But the offshore fog banks loomed and have loomed and will loom... Good article, got me thinking
I share Ted's distrust of the AI crowd, but I highly recommend young people, and people of all ages concerned about AI, watch this 2-day old podcast interview of Trump's Crypto/AI Czar, David Sacks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uho2GupZSgU
Sacks has his finger on the pulse and truly understands the concerns and risks--Orwellian (his term)--and the upside. It's not all dark inside the Silicon Valley/Washington D.C. bubble.
Wake up young man!
PLEASE help with your comments: what’s your best way to wake-up those who didn’t yet?
The more the awakened, the sooner this nightmare will be over!
What’s your experience about asking for an opinion on the following topics?
Why is food poisoning legal? (Rumsfeld forced the FDA approval of Aspartame/NutraSweet)
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/why-is-food-poisoning-legal
Magneto Challenge. 20 sec video opens ANY conversation:
https://odysee.com/@nazar:d/magneto:3
You can check with your own phone that the ungrounded vaxxed are emitting Bluetooth:
https://rumble.com/v1v4du6-bluetruth-scientific-evidence-for-nano-wireless-technology-in-the-vaxxinate.html
Also, every single haxxed on the planet should sue Pfizer and Moderna for deliberately hiding human DNA plasmids in their vaccines, and Pfizer, for injecting an undisclosed carcinogenic monkey virus (SV40) sequence in the clueless biohacked, as officially recognized by Health Canada and Slovakia!
"Sound of Silence" Challenge
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/sound-of-silence-challenge
A father gets 20 million dollars from Government? 20 sec video of a baby with vax seizures?
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/autism-day-shall-we-celebrate-the
Big Pharma scandals as the norm, not the exception?
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/system-failure-ai-exposes-zero-government
PCR-test does not measure sickness and is not suitable for tracing, with up to 90% false positives: PCR-demic?
https://off-guardian.org/2020/12/18/who-finally-admits-pcr-tests-create-false-positives
https://rumble.com/v6kevka-understanding-pcr-as-a-diagnostic-test-applications-and-pitfalls.html
Dr. Fauci admitted no scientific basis for social distancing?
https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/04/fauci-admits-there-was-no-scientific-evidence-for-six-foot-social-distancing-rule/
The CDC admitted that masking was useless against COVID?
https://web.archive.org/web/20211230231436/https://www.dailyveracity.com/2021/07/26/over-50-scientific-studies-conclude-masks-do-nothing-to-prevent-the-spread-of-illness-so-why-do-people-keep-claiming-they-work/
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-08-28-cdc-admits-masks-totally-useless-against-covid.html
You’ve been lockdowned for nothing? Johns Hopkins meta-analysis of 18000 studies proved that, and worse, killed people by preventing testing and treatment for cancer and heart:
https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf
No Health Agency researched the 30+ COVID effective cures, but instead censored and banned the doctors successfully curing COVID? A cure would void the Emergency Use Authorization of the lethal experimental COVID “vaccines”?
http://c19early.com
http://bit.ly/research2000
60 million people killed by the lethal injections? Excess deaths even higher now by the vax-induced thrombosis, myocarditis, cancer and auto-immune pandemics? More casualties than WW1, WW2, and Nam combined:
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/covid-19-vaccines-likely-killed-more
https://www.globalresearch.ca/more-americans-died-covid-19-injections-wwi-wwii-vietnam-war-combined/5878034
Is a COVID vax infertility bomb exploding as the haxxed children grow up?
COVID designed as a primer for even worse COVID haccines:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-real-covid-timeline
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/not-vaccine-not-gene-therapy-just
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/what-do-bioweapons-have-to-do-with
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/you-are-anti-haccine
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/us-public-health-emergency-over-infant
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/spike-protein-against-bone-formation
10 sec video:
https://odysee.com/@ImpossiblyWackedOutWorld:f/WTC-7-Free-Falling:8
(caveat: pot destroys your brain + “Raises Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke”)
9/11: two "planes", yet 8 towers down. WTC7 imploded, free falling on its footprint, in a controlled demolition. It was out of reach as well as the unblemished Deutsche Bank, which with all 7 World Trade Center towers needed to be rebuilt, not the closer towers not belonging to WTC ...
The “owner” took an insurance policy for the WTC against terrorism, months before, when no one was taking them … he didn’t show up for work on 9/11 … just as his 2 grown up siblings.
The fore-knowledge of the 9/11 event allowed masons to make trillions by shorting the stock exchange: the records were deleted by the SEC so they wouldn't be prosecuted !!!
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/911-2-planes-3-towers
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/tucker-carlson-historical-911-was
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/107-911
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/cia-director-in-bed-with-al-qaeda
There's a plan to slow-murder 95% of the global population by 2050… written on the masonic Georgia guide-stones: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 … ”:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/depopulation-or-extermination
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/jane-kills-tarzan
Elections: bought and stolen?
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/2024-elections-bought-or-stolen
Free 100 redpill movies and documentaries:
(don't miss the 1st one, 10 min at 2x, amazing tool for a discussion):
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/wake-up-videos
- You’ll go nowhere and you’ll be happy:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/2050-youll-go-nowhere-and-youll-be
- US Government: “you are your ID” !
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/boycott-us-biometric-id-deadline
- You are the carbon they want to exterminate:
1. No one denies that man affects the weather, but science disagrees with the official narrative.
Prehistoric data from ice cores proves that temperature rise precedes carbon release in the atmosphere, not the other way around.
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/best-scientific-sources-to-debunk
2. There's proof of deliberate geoengineering to increase global temperatures and droughts, and decrease albedo by dissolving clouds with chemtrails and microwaves from satellites, weather radars and 5G.
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/satattack
3. Life involves a carbon cycle. A war on carbon is a war on life, causing crop/food scarcity, increase in food prices and famines. Decarbonization is part of the plan to exterminate 95% of us.
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/carbon-reparations
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/climate-deaths
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/killing-me-softly-with-green-songs
4. Why do they want you to drink cockroach milk?
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/drink-zee-bugs-cockroach-milk-the
5. Elon's top secret: EVs cause cancer
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/electric-vehicles-cause-cancer
President John Quincy Adams: “Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.”
Satanic Secret Societies for dummies:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/sss-for-dummies
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/not-so-happy-constitution-day
Who are The Powers That SHOULDN'T Be ?
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/criminal-intent
https://www.coreysdigs.com/global/who-is-they/
The end of money and freedom
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/uncle-sam-altman
LBJ killed JFK for the Federal Reserve, Nam and the Israel A-bomb
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/lbj-killed-jfk
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/why-was-japan-a-bombed-if-it-was
Weaponization of Justice: no democracy with Freemasonry!
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/petition-free-reiner-fuellmich
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/weaponization-of-justice
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/another-proven-conspiracy-steele
Illuminati David Rockefeller, finest quotes:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/david-rockefeller-illuminati
Confessions of ex illuminati Ronald Bernard:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/confessions-of-illuminati-ronald
Illuminati Attali, finest quotes:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/attali-illuminati-finest-quotes
Chisholm, father of the WHO’s global pedophilia
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/brock-chisholm-father-of-the-whos
Ex mason Serge Abad-Gallardo:
https://www.ncregister.com/interview/confessions-of-a-former-freemason-officer-converted-to-catholicism
9 SOLUTIONS
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/9-steps-out-of-global-tyranny
HHS Secretary Kennedy: 47 life-death actions you can't put off any longer !
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/dear-bobby-what-is-really-going-on
Would you like to earn $60,000 per year for educating your own children?
Rethinking education for the real 21st century:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/rethinking-education-for-the-21st
Please share, not the articles, but the information! The messenger expendable. Saving the free world, is not!
This is nuts
As a former coder and eventually head of IT, I disagree with the "forget coding" comment. Understanding the foundation that AI is built upon seems very important to me. Coding as a full time job may fade but those who develop AI will still need to understand what AI does. I will compare it to robotic surgery. The human surgeon still has to understand what the robot assistant will do.
Having employed youngsters (well almost everyone is to me) the two key things that are different and may well be helpful to a younger generations outlook are (a) to get away from the tech that seems to capture your social and other time (b) put yourself in situations where face to face social is the thing.
Communication skills are imho the #1 skill gap amongst the younger generations. (Sending an email / dM etc is not that).
Try drawing and watercolor.
One more: Get a Light Phone, ditch your smart phone. Changing over is easier than you think.