Last week I was driving home, and I wanted to send a quick voice message to my friend Sean McCabe. He’s been posting some awesome and fun stuff the past few weeks and it has inspired me and helped me stay motivated with my own desire to write more, here, at shawnblanc.net, in 2019.
Well, Sean took my 60-second voice message and he turned it into this cool little animated snippet. Check it out:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ej0Ooj8I7aY
On his Instagram account, he also shared three takeaways from this little interaction turned video.
- When you show up, you inspire others to do the same.
- Opportunities to create content are all around you.
- A little encouragement goes a long way.
And then I have a takeaway of my own:
Be intentional about engaging in non-disembodied communication.
In a recent episode of Jocelyn K. Glei’s podcast, she interviewed Cal Newport. And Cal shared about how he views all communication and interaction as either “real” or “not real”. Communication done in person or over the phone is real. Communication done via texting, DMing, etc. is not real.
And it got me thinking that the friends and family members I have the deepest connection with are those whom I talk to on the phone or spend face-to-face time with. Not necessarily those whom I iMessage the most.
And so, something I’ve been doing for the past few months has been to send my friends these voice memos to tell them how awesome they are. It’s not quite as awesome as a phone call (because it’s still just me monologuing), but it’s better than a disembodied text message.