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539 7 old-fashioned habits Boomers maintain that are actually brilliant life skills we’ve lost

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Sarah Mitchell @ Silicon Canals · today 10:00 EDT

7 old-fashioned habits Boomers maintain that are actually brilliant life skills we’ve lost

While millennials and Gen Z mock their parents' "outdated" ways, these seven seemingly antiquated Boomer habits might actually be the antidote to our modern epidemic of digital burnout and shallow connections.

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