Some of the most successful people I know don't have an e-mail account. I don't mean that they don't have a public e-mail account-I mean they don't have one at all.

The same people don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone either.

And, not surprisingly, they're not on Facebook or Twitter.

Whenever I share these facts with colleagues or friends, I normally get a shocked reaction. The underlying attitude seems to be: you can't be successful without those things. You'll be out of touch!

I wonder. Perhaps being “out of touch” also means being in touch… with your own creativity, ideas, and internal leadership. Perhaps being “out of touch” means not being told what to think by the “million bright ambassadors” of self-induced ADHD.

I'm just sayin'.

What do you think? Is it possible to succeed today without being Uber-connected? Is being “out of touch” (in the way I have described here) a virtue? Or is it a sign that you are a complete and hopeless Luddite?