In the City: Davos Bonus: Jonathan Haidt on The Anxious Generation and How It’s Shaping Our Workforce

Leaders with Francine Lacqua

Bloomberg

Management, Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.6 • 64 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Is modern technology ruining our children? In a live taping before an audience at Bloomberg House in Davos, Francine Lacqua sits down with author of "The Anxious Generation" and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt to tackle that question. They discuss the impact of social media on Gen Z's childhoods, and how that might shape their potential as a workforce.

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1:06.8	Hey, and the city listeners, it's Francine recording this, frankly from a closet on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Now, I'm here all week interviewing global leaders, chief executives, and interesting voices for my TV show and for this very podcast. Now, we're bringing you one of those conversations in today's episode. I sat down with Jonathan Hayes at Bloomberg House in Davos in front of an audience who, as you might be able to hear, we're eating lunch.
1:31.3	Ignore the clinking because my conversation with John was really interesting and really important.
1:36.4	He's a social psychologist and ethics professor at NYU Stern School of Business.
1:41.3	He's written four books. Most recently, The Anxious Generation
1:44.7	how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness. Now, we talk
1:49.9	about the themes he addresses in that book, mainly how the spread of smartphones and social media
1:55.5	have led to rewiring of childhood and what kind of workforce that gives you later on in life.
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