That is lesson 1 done.
One of these is a number you could count. The other is a gap, and the gap is the thing that hurts.
Anything you wrote in this lesson is in your notebook, on this device only.
Where this lesson comes from
- Holt-Lunstad J, Smith TB, Baker M, Harris T, Stephenson D (2015). Loneliness and social isolation as risk factors for mortality: a meta-analytic review. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10(2), 227 to 237. Cited for the direction of the finding only. No risk percentage is published here, because the figures in circulation were not confirmed against the source.
- Valtorta NK, Kanaan M, Gilbody S, Ronzi S, Hanratty B (2016). Loneliness and social isolation as risk factors for coronary heart disease and stroke: systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal observational studies. Heart, 102(13), 1009 to 1016.