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Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.

Let's say you went to sleep in 2020 and just woke up here in 2026.

You'd be asking yourself for yourself, like, why are all these people around me so stupid?

What happened?

Well, you know what?

According to some reports that have been published recently, especially from very smart people, very learned people, technology, the way we handle life.

A lot of things have shifted, and we look at life differently, and we're not as present in the same way we used to be.

And I'm going to get into that a little further, not only quoting from these great articles we're talking about,

but also talking to people who agree with us.

Alyssa from Staten Island is a psychologist,

and you agree with this concept.

And I didn't really give it a great intro for people just turning our show on,

so maybe you can put it in a nutshell for everyone.

Like,

what are we talking about here, Alyssa?

Yeah. So good morning. Hello. We are in an age of chronic stimulation, right? We are,

we have so much technology. We have so much that is so available to us, that it is so easy for us to sort of check out and, you know, I want to say like go through the motions of life,

like, and things have sort of happened past us by,

and we kind of live in this little bubble a little bit.

I don't know that I set it up any better,

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