Phubbing is a term used to describe the act of snubbing someone in favour of the phone. It’s a blend of “phone” and “snubbing.” Phubbing behaviour can also be seen in overhead gazing or looking over someone’s head for an opportunity during a conversation.

Phubbing: Snubbing Others With Your Phone

The most common form of phubbing is when someone is talking to you, looking at their phone instead of making eye contact. Other examples of phubbing someone can do include:• Interrupting a conversation to take a phone call• Scrolling through social media while they’re supposed to be listening to someone• Turning to the phone to escape an argument or disagreement, especially with a partner

The Phone Snub That We All Know About

Phubbing can be due to boredom and a way for someone to find quick entertainment. It could also be due to someone trying to avoid an awkward conversation or feeling socially anxious during social interactions. Other times, snubbing can happen when someone becomes addicted to their phones.

The Reason For Phubbing

Phubbing can be addictive, especially when it becomes normal during social interactions. Some people might over-rely on phones and avoid social interactions, especially during parties, friendly get-togethers, or business conferences. If phubbing starts damaging relationships, it can be dangerously addictive.

The Addictive Habit Of Phubbing

Phubbing can lead to communication problems. When someone is phubbing you, they’re not really listening to what they’re saying. This can make you feel left out in a conversation.Phubbing can damage relationships. Eye contact is super important in bonding and developing oxytocin, the chemical that builds trust and connection. A lack of eye contact due to phubbing can make people feel like you don’t care about them or value their time.

Dangers Of Phubbing

If you encounter someone who phubs during a conversation, follow their gaze. Notice what they look at and make a comment:If they look at their phone, gaze over at their phone screen. “Did you want to show me something interesting?”If they’re eyeballing the person next to you, look over at them. “Oh, do you know them?”Every time they phub, look where they are looking. They may realize 3 things:<ul><li>It’s super distracting</li><li>It’s not nice</li><li>They will become annoyed or self-conscious with you pointing out their phubbing.</li></ul>

Stop Phubbing: Follow Their Gaze

Some people might be guilty of phubbing because they’re super introverted or socially anxious. In this case, you’ll want to help them by rewarding them with eye contact.Here’s how:Flash them a reassuring smile whenever they look up. Smiling will act as a reinforcement and cue them that it’s good to look at you. You can even add a few small nods to the smile.Pause first, continue later. When someone snubbed you during a conversation (especially if you’re talking), immediately employ the pause. You might even be in the middle of a sentence.

Reward Eye Contact

If you notice someone is phubbing you if they are upset about something or avoiding something, you can verbally say, “Is everything OK? I notice you’re looking down a lot,” or, “I notice you haven’t been looking at me.”This is a straightforward approach, but if you think they are going through a personal issue, this might be a way for them to open up and share what’s going on.

Be Direct

Try saying this line when you notice someone buries themselves in their phone. You’ll give them the heads-up that you won’t make conversation with them unless they’re giving you their full attention.This one’s super direct! Save it for those hardcore snubbers.

Say It To Them

You can playfully say, “Say hi for me!” or another fun/humorous/playful one-liner. This will help lighten up the conversation while also pointing out that you notice their snubbing.Other clever one-liners might include:“Don’t worry. You can take my number down later.”“This must be important. Is that the President on the other line?”“Oh, you must be checking out the latest memes, right?”

Be Playful

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Phubbing: How to Deal with People Who Won’t Make Eye Contact

Listening is a vital aspect of a meaningful conversation. If you ask important questions but then fail to listen, you're not having a conversation.  The easiest way to practice active listening is to ensure we are turning the conversation more than we're taking.

Practice active listening

Taking is when you make another conversation about yourself. Someone else says "I went to Thailand and had an amazing trip." and you say "I went to Thailand last year." That usually kills the conversation. However, when you turn a conversation you get to say, "I also went to Thailand last year. What was your favourite part?" This shows them that you heard what they said and care enough to ask a follow-up question. The best conversationalists always turn the conversation three or four times to peel off the layers and get more depth out of a conversation.

Taking vs turning a conversation

When we learn to ask better questions in a conversation, we move into a metamorphic two-step.It's about having a presence. Presence is when you're only responding and reacting to what's happening in the moment. There's no story from the past, no fear of the future.  <ol><li>Be aware when your undesired state of being reveals itself. "I'm worried that I won't have anything to say." You might feel nervous about being in the company of influential people.</li><li>Then articulate the desired state of being. Focus your energy and attention on being better than you were the day before.  </li></ol>

Overcoming anxiety in a social situation

The American Psychological Review put out a study that found that 60 percent of all people are struggling with shyness or social anxiety. Since the majority of people have those feelings, most people feel intimidated, they feel unworthy when they compare themselves to others. "They're so much smarter than I am" or "I'm never going to be that good." However, if you commit yourself to progressing and getting better and smarter, you will have fulfillment.

Comparison is the thief of joy

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Social anxiety: How to rewire your confidence and be a better communicator | Andrew Horn | Big Think

It takes practice to be socially confident. Unfortunately, some of us feel we lack the knowledge to have conversations or feel unworthy. We compare ourselves to others, thinking they are somehow better, smarter, more confident. However, we need to challenge the cognitive distortions when we notice them.

Why we lack social confidence

Ensure that you spend time with positive and supportive people. Ask yourself how you feel when you leave someone's company. That can be a helpful clue as to who you may want to spend your time with. To find people that share more of your own values or interests, join a club, attend workshops or look on meetup.com.

Social impact

The concept of social facilitation is that we generally improve our performance and skill base when we are in the presence of others. As a result, we try harder and focus better. For example, working out in a gym makes us work out harder than exercising at home. The international organisation, the Toastmasters, works on this theory. They help people learn confidence in public speaking and leadership. Use the idea of social facilitation when you want to improve a skill.

Social facilitation

To compare is to despair. When you decide to give up on yourself because others can do it better or have more talent, it is an excuse not to participate. Instead, when you look at people you admire, ask what they might be doing to improve themselves. Successful people often have good habits such as discipline, effort, consistency, and a willingness to take action.

Stop idealising others

Act like the person you admire or want to become. Just like actors and performers, they take on a different persona. They have stage names, dress a certain way in that role and show only certain aspects of themselves. We can do that until it becomes more ingrained.

Play a role

It takes practice to be confident socially. Some of us feel like we don’t know enough to have conversations with others, or we feel unworthy compared to others. This increases our anxiety. Often, we…

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Tips to Build Your Social Confidence

To be a flower,” Emily Dickinson wrote in her pre-ecological poem about ecology, “is profound Responsibility.”A century later, in one of the most poetic and existentially ravishing children’s* books of all time, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry made his hero’s central preoccupation the responsibility for a single flower — the Little Prince’s beloved rose: fragile and self-concerned, ferociously hungry for love, capable of such tenderness and such cruelty, so ephemeral and so stubborn, so much a miniature of the contradictory animating forces that make us human.

Being A Flower

For as long as humans have been alive and awake to our bittersweet cosmic inheritance as transient constellations of atoms capable of transcendent beauty, we have found in flowers <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/02/07/the-moral-of-flowers-rebecca-hey/">models of moral wisdom</a>, <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/06/16/sarah-mapps-douglass-flowers/">emblems of freedom</a>, <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/07/02/perfect-flowers-emily-dickison/">nonbinary pioneers</a>, <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/17/sidewalk-flowers/">portals to paying attention</a>. Over the epochs of time and thought, flowers have <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/03/06/wintering-katherine-may/">rivaled trees</a> as mirrors for the meaning of our human lives.

Flowers Show Us The Fragility And Beauty Of Life

Our experience of flowers is so deeply drenched in our sense of time. Maybe there’s a good reason we find their fleetingness so piercing, can scarcely look at a flower in bloom without thinking ahead, whether in hope or regret. We might share with certain insects a tropism inclining us toward flowers, but presumably, insects can look at a blossom without entertaining thoughts of the past and future — complicated human thoughts that may once have been anything but idle. Flowers have always had important things to teach us about time.

Flowers Are Fleeting Beauty

Time, of course, is itself a creature of paradoxes — at once the relentless forward momentum of our mortality and the greatest antidote to the anxiety of aliveness. When you realize you are mortal you also realize the tremendousness of the future. You fall in love with a Time you will never perceive.It may be that flowers betoken precisely this elemental duality and through it cast their enchantment upon us. After contouring their astonishing evolutionary history — so astonishing that the baffled Darwin called it “an abominable mystery”

The Sense Of Time

Look into a flower, and what do you see? Into the very heart of nature’s double nature — that is, the contending energies of creation and dissolution, the spiring toward complex form and the tidal pull away from it. There, the achievement of order against all odds and its blithe abandonment. There, the perfection of art and the blind flux of nature. There, somehow, both transcendence and necessity. Could that be it — right there, in a flower — the meaning of life?

Flowers Are The Shades Of Life

Meaning, of course, is just what we make of life — what we make of our mortality <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/02/21/brian-greene-until-the-end-of-time/">as an inevitability of the universe that made us</a>. “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important,” the fox says to the Little Price. “All the stars are a-bloom with flowers,” the Little Prince says to the pilot before he returns to that fathomless region of spacetime from which he had visited.

The Meaning Of Life

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The Flower and the Meaning of Life

Flexibility has tremendous <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0003122415622391">benefits</a> for employees, including reduced burnout and greater job satisfaction. However, it can also result in spiralling coordination costs for managers, untenable amounts of wasted effort, and the inability to respond quickly to client requests. If employees want the benefits of flexibility, they’ll also need to shoulder some of the responsibility that goes with it, like autonomous problem-solving and providing and checking for updates.

Flexibility And Responsibility At The Workplace

To increase employee flexibility on their teams, managers need guidance and support — otherwise, they could <a href="https://hbr.org/2021/01/do-you-know-burnout-when-you-see-it">burn out</a> on the job or check out to find a new one.To increase flexibility for employees without losing productivity — or sanity — managers will need to think differently about when employees work together, who works together, how to share information and with whom, all while being careful to stay abreast of any changes and rapidly communicating changes in priorities.

Increasing Employee Flexibility

For complex tasks that require teamwork, managers will need to think differently and deeply about project requirements and schedule accordingly.For project-based workflows, managers should carefully chart out the project tasks and timeline and issue an advance request for employees to block a specific set of days for overlapping work during <a href="https://hbr.org/2017/09/the-overcommitted-organization">key project phases</a> (e.g., kickoff, mid-point, finalization).For less predictable workflows, consider aligning scheduling bursts with calendar time.

Rethink When Employees Work Together

In workplaces with less physical and temporal overlap between employees, managers may also need to reorganize their larger teams into <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206315601184">multiteam systems</a> of smaller, empowered, and interconnected groups. These smaller teams improve flexibility and adaptability.This reconfiguration reduces the coordination costs placed on the manager without dumping them all on the most accommodating employee(s). Each employee is only asked to help coordinate with a couple of other individuals rather than everyone in the larger team.

Rethink Who Works Together

When employees were co-located and working roughly similar hours, it was easier to keep everyone on the same page with meetings and learn about important issues by walking around. Giving or receiving an important update only required a few steps (or perhaps a brief elevator ride).Long waits for status updates or answers to questions can kill productivity. Thus, information availability is critical for flexible workplaces.

Rethink Information Sharing

Combining and expanding on the previous three steps, managers must think more deeply than ever about the structure of their employees’ tasks and priorities. Map out each part of the task and how they’re connected to one another to determine when scheduling bursts will be needed and when you can assign discrete pieces of the project to smaller subgroups. Record and update all of this information in a shared location.

Revisit What Employees Are Working On

If employees want the benefits of flexibility, they’ll also need to shoulder some of the responsibility that goes with it, like autonomous problem-solving and providing and checking for updates. However, that doesn’t mean setting them adrift in the storm. Managers are still responsible for making sure everyone is rowing to the correct location in the same direction — even if they’re rowing at different times.

The Bottom Line

Keep everyone working together — even if they’re working at different times.

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4 Ways Managers Can Increase Flexibility Without Losing Productivity

“A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.”

If we want to do things that haven’t been done or learn things that have never been learned — in short, be more creative — we must learn to ask the right questions, ones so good that they’re half-answered in the asking. And to do that, it might help to understand the process.
Warren Berger proposes a simple method in his book A More Beautiful Question; an interesting three-part system to help (partially) solve the problem of inquiry. He calls it The Why, What If, and How of Innovative Questioning. Each stage of the problem-solving process has distinct challenges and issues–requiring a different mindset, along with different types of questions.

Asking The Right Questions

Expertise is helpful at certain points, not so helpful at others; wide-open, unfettered divergent thinking is critical at one stage, discipline and focus is called for at another. 
By thinking of questioning and problem solving in a more structured way, we can remind ourselves to shift approaches, change tools, and adjust our questions according to which stage we’re entering.

Expertise

A good Why? seeks true understanding. Why are things the way they are currently? Why do we do it that way? Why do we believe what we believe?
This start is essential because it gives us permission to continue down a line of inquiry fully equipped. Although we may think we have a brilliant idea in our heads for a new product, or a new answer to an old question, or a new way of doing an old thing, unless we understand why things are the way they are, we’re not yet on solid ground. We never want to operate from a position of ignorance, wasting our time on an idea that is half-baked.

Why? Questioning

The truth is that a really good Why? type question tends to be threatening. That’s also what makes it useful. It challenges us to step back and stop thinking on autopilot.
It also requires a step back from knowing — that recognizable feeling of knowing something but not knowing how you know it. This forced perspective is, of course, as valuable a thing as you can do.

The Why Is Threatening

All great ideas tend to be, almost by definition — by asking What If…?Berger illustrates this one well with the story of Pandora Music. The founder Tim Westergren wanted to know why good music wasn’t making it out to the masses. His search didn’t lead to a satisfactory answer, so he eventually asked himself, What if we could map the DNA of music? The Pandora story started with someone’s wondering about an unmet need. It concluded with the questioner, Westergren, figuring out a way to bring a fully realized version of the answer into the world.

What If? Questioning

Smart recombinations are all around us. Pandora, for example, is a combination of a radio station and search engine; it also takes the biological method of genetic coding and transfers it to the domain of music. In today’s tech world, many of the most successful products–Apple’s iPhone being just one notable example–are hybrids, melding functions and features in new ways.

Smart Blends And Recombinations

Once we think we’ve hit on a brilliant new idea, it’s time to see if the thing actually works. Usually and most frequently, the answer is no. But enough times to make it worth our while, we discover that the new idea has legs.The most common problem here is that we try to perfect a new idea all at once, leading to stagnation and paralysis. That’s usually the wrong approach.Another, often better, way is to try the idea quickly and start getting feedback.

How? Questioning

The point is to move along the axis of Why?–What If–How? without too much self-censoring in the last phase. Being afraid to fail can often mean a great What If? proposition gets stuck there forever. Analysis paralysis, as it’s sometimes called. But if you can instead enter the testing of the How? stage quickly, even by showing that an idea won’t work, then you can start the loop over again, either asking a new Why? or proposing a new What If? to an existing Why?Thus moving your creative engine forward.

Avoiding An Analysis Paralysis

Solve creativity problems with these three questions

How do we ask better questions, and why does it matter? Warren Berger helps us with his book "A More Beautiful Question," proposing a three-part system.

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Warren Berger's Three-Part Method for More Creativity - Farnam Street

Returning to in-person work can feel a bit awkward after working remotely for the last year and a half. While some may be eager to share experiences with coworkers, others may not be ready to talk about the emotional experiences they've been through. Personal interaction with other people may require more energy than expected and could feel like a drain. To reboot our in-person working relationships, we need to go back to the basics of human connection.

Adjusting to in-person working relationships

One of the most fundamental social skills is attunement - the ability to be aware of your own feelings while connecting with another individual and managing conflict. Attunement consists of four components that can help you stay in sync with others, especially in difficult conversations.<ol><li>Prepare your nervous system.</li><li>Listen to the other person and yourself.</li><li>Practice empathy</li><li>Keep expressing interest.</li></ol>

Attunement: In tune and in sync

You can cultivate a relaxed awareness, calm your nervous system and feel more grounded. <ul><li>Just before your next meeting, pause, tilt your chin down and feel as if your head is gently suspended from above.</li><li>Relax your shoulders</li><li>Feel your belly expand with your in-breath</li><li>Relax with your out-breath.</li><li>Tune in to your environment.</li></ul> Try to practice these steps daily on your own to help you in the heat of the moment at work.

Prepare your nervous system

Notice the other person's cues. Consider what they're saying and expressing as very valuable to you. As you listen, check in with yourself from time to time and notice your own feelings. If you feel tense, go to the first step - let your shoulders drop and relax as you take a mindful breath. Then focus on the other person.

Pay attention to the other person (and yourself)

We seldom have the same experiences or views as another person and should be tolerant of their perspectives. Cultivating self- and other-focused compassion can help in navigating conflict. Consider the obstacles that may prevent you from understanding the other person, such as assumptions you may be making, what you need from them, or your own reactivity.

Practice empathy

Communication is often more effective when we meet the other person where they are mentally and emotionally.  Allow the other person to start with what's on their mind. By being open and interested, you foster a greater connection. In turn, they may be more open and responsive to you.

Express interest

The return to in-person work can be overwhelming. These four strategies can help.

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Getting Back to the Basics of Human Connection

We wrongly assume that being creative means being an artist, writer or painter. Solving creative problems, inventing new technology, being better at communication, and saving time with innovative measures all come under creativity.We were taught in school that creative people are right-brain thinkers and analytical, problem-solving minds were using the left side of the brain. The truth is not so simple, as creativity comes from both hemispheres.

Creativity: What It Really Is

When we evoke our past or visualize our future, the default mode network region of the brain, which includes areas like the medial prefrontal cortex, are activated. This is usually when we are relaxed and are letting our minds wander.

The Default Mode Network: A Key Brain Region

To enhance the creativity we already experience every day, we need to tap into three aspects of our brains:
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<li>Memory: Try to remember past events, using the tools of notes and journals.</li>
<li>Imagination: Make use of creative visualization, brainstorming and mind-mapping abilities of your mind. Your imagination is your biggest superpower.</li>
<li>Mind-wandering: Doing nothing is a type of meditation, and we have to let our mind wander while cooking, strolling in the park or taking a shower.</li>
</ol>

The Trinity Of Creativity

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The creative brain: three ways to cultivate your creative thinking

Most of us cannot stay still, as we were never taught to be at one place and do nothing. We have heard about the benefits of meditation, but start to wiggle if we try it even for a minute.
Our constant need to juggle and multitask has made it impossible to do anything solo. We need a distraction to help us with our main distraction, like listening to music while reading, or watching TV while surfing Twitter.

An Unstable Mind And Body

We try to drown our mind with distractions and noise because we are scared of what will happen when everything stops, no TV, music, internet, phones and everything dead silent. We could hear ourselves think and we could end up getting introduced to what we really feel, and who we really are. That is scary as hell.

Scared Of Nothing

Stillness does not mean lack of motion, but just to be, even if just for a few micro-moments. Even a five-second look at the trees outside and a deep breath can be a micro-vacation.<ul><li>One can be still with a cat or a dog, who will love your petting them.</li><li>Try to block all social media and phone notifications, setting a timer to not be disturbed in those precious moments.</li><li>Small rituals like leaning back and staying still for 10 seconds before you start your car, or enjoying the complete song help us be still for a moment.</li></ul>

The Art Of Stillness

<ul><li>Put a sticky note on your computer screen reminding you to breathe deeply.</li><li>After accomplishing a task from the to-do list, enjoy the feeling for a few moments.</li><li>Relax when you close your laptop after finishing work.</li><li>Send a small message to your loved ones, feeling good that you made them feel good.</li><li>Savor your tea or coffee without your phone.</li><li>Chew your food slowly and without screens around you.</li><li>Get a body massage or Reiki.</li></ul>

The Art Of Stillness: Stolen Moments Of Peace

<ul><li>When watching TV, mute the commercials and relax.</li><li>Sit and relax on a park bench.</li><li>Spend some time close to water.</li><li>Put your stillness time on your calendar.</li><li>Before you go to sleep, put your phone and iPad away.</li><li>Try gratitude practice at night.</li><li>Give yourself some space in the morning before jumping towards your routine.</li></ul>

Everyday Tricks To Attain Stillness

Finding micro-moments of stillness sometimes means feeling the tough stuff, and sometimes means closing your eyes and simply enjoying the fresh air.

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How to Find Micro-Moments of Stillness in the Everyday | Wit & Delight

With modern technology and resources, it is much easier to live in another country. However, there is more to consider than just packing your bags.
Each country offers a different introduction to expatriate life that should be carefully considered, such as vetting visas, health care, school tests, banking and taxes, and staying connected.

What To Consider When Moving Abroad

Anyone who won't be marrying a foreigner and moving to that person's country must note the visa requirements for their destination.
The U.S. State Department recommends contacting the embassy or consulate of your destination country months before you want to move.

Vetting Visas

Understand the health insurance requirements in your destination country and your status in your country of origin.
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<li>Permanent residency in a country may let you qualify for national coverage.</li>
<li>For those eligible for Medicare in the U.S., coverage may be affected if you live outside the country.</li>
</ul>

Moving Abroad: Health Care

If you are relocating with children, explore options for local public schools and private international schools.
<ul>
<li>The International Schools Database is a directory with more than 2,000 schools in 71 countries.</li>
<li>Families in Global Transition and the Safe Passage Across Networks (SPAN) are resources that could be useful for families to transition across cultures.</li>
</ul>

Moving Abroad: School Tests

Banking:
<ul>
<li>Set up online banking for domestic fixed costs such as mortgages or other repayment loans.</li>
<li>Set up local bank accounts for paying utilities and cash on hand in your new home.</li>
</ul>
Taxes:
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<li>You'll have to file taxes in the U.S. for as long as you retain citizenship.</li>
<li>If you plan to work in the new country, take note of the local tax requirements.</li>
<li>Online services like TransferWise provide borderless transfer services.</li>
</ul>

Moving Abroad: Banking and Taxes

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<li>Stay connected with family, friends and business back home by checking with your phone carrier for international plans, or buy SIM cards in your inbound countries for local calling.</li>
<li>For the long term, consider using a separate foreign phone.</li>
<li>Apps such as FaceTime and WhatsApp are cost-effective ways to connect with people.</li>
<li>Cloud services are often used for health records and other personal data you may need.</li>
</ul>

Moving Abroad: Staying Connected

It’s never been easier to live a seamless international life. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be prepared.

Phubbing: How to Deal with People Who Won’t Make Eye Contact

Social anxiety: How to rewire your confidence and be a better communicator | Andrew Horn | Big Think

Tips to Build Your Social Confidence

The Flower and the Meaning of Life

4 Ways Managers Can Increase Flexibility Without Losing Productivity

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