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#767 - Jonathan Haidt - The Hidden Dangers Of Social Media On Mental Health

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.74.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Haidt is a Professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, social psychologist, and an author. The kids are not alright. Mental health is plummeting while anxiety and depression is on the rise. Just what are the contributing elements? Is it social media? Helicopter parenting? 24 hour news? Or something else? Expect to learn why every generation complains about the next one, what is so important about the development of kids between 8 and 12 years old, what the biggest problem is with test scores in primary school children, the real harm of technology on kids, why words like ‘trigger’ and ‘fragility’ are such a problem, if there is a way to do identity politics well and much more... Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get up to 32% discount on the best supplements from Momentous at https://livemomentous.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout) Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period from Shopify at https://www.shopify.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout) Get a Free Sample Pack of all LMNT Flavours with your first box at https://www.drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout) Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: http://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: http://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: http://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Jonathan Hight, he's a professor at New York University Stern School of Business, a social psychologist, and an author.

0:10.0

The kids are not all right. Mental health is plummeting while anxiety and depression are on the rise.

0:14.8

Just what are the contributing elements? Is it social media, helicopter parenting, 24 hour news,

0:20.7

or something else? Expect to learn why every generation complains about the next one.

0:25.4

What is so important about the development of kids between 8 and 12 years old, what the biggest

0:30.1

problem is with test scores in primary school children the real harm of technology

0:34.4

on kids why words like trigger and fragility are such a problem if there is a way to do identity

0:39.9

politics well and much more.

0:43.8

So the big announcement that I have been playing around with for quite a while since a couple

0:48.1

of weeks ago when we filmed the world's first ever five camera podcast on the biggest video wall in Texas.

0:55.8

This is basically the same technology that they filmed the Mandalorian on,

0:59.1

which is a photorealistic background that sits behind the subjects and then you match the lighting in front of it to the backdrop and it creates this super immersive sense that the people are sat in whatever environment you've created.

1:16.1

So the first episode goes live with Dr. Kay this Monday.

1:20.0

Healthy gamer, phenomenal episode, great insights about mental health and

1:23.2

improving your resilience your robustness how to integrate emotions and

1:27.2

love and stuff but more than that it is technically unbelievably hard to do this and we pulled it off so yeah get ready for

1:36.0

Monday and check out the YouTube channel to see some previews of what we're gonna do

1:40.3

I'm super excited thank you to everyone who's already commented on how the

1:44.4

clip looks and made them feel and stuff. I really think this is cool. There's not much stuff you can do

1:50.5

that no one else has done before and this is one of them so I thank you.

1:54.7

You might have heard me say that I took my testosterone level from 495 to a thousand and six last year

1:59.7

and two of the supplements are used throughout that were Fidoja Agrestis and Tonkat Ali.

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