It's about emotions. It's about empathy. It's about getting out of your head.

Instead of spending time in an activity that you could tell other people about, spend more time actually talking to people and practice relating on an emotional level.

This seems very platitude-y. In practise there presumably needs to be some sort of context for "relating on an emotional level". You're unlikely to walk up to someone and start talking about all these awesome emotions you've been having.

To clarify, this isn't some problem I need solving. It's an observation that if I lock myself up in a room for a month watching maths lectures and writing essays on neoclassical expenditure theories, it becomes harder to engage socially with people.