Jonathan Haidt: Childhood Has Been Hijacked

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

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🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

The Anxious Epidemic is REVEALED. Jonathan Haidt Exposes the HEARTBREAKING ways our technology is designed to make us Addicted. Learn how Tech is Ruining Childhood & hijacking all of our ATTENTION. We're breaking down the SINISTER Evolution of how Smartphones are Ruining Childhood, impacting education, mental health, and even safety...and what we can do about it. Sharing scientific evidence that traces global mental health collapse directly back to smartphone usage, Jonathan Haidt (Social psychologist, NYU professor, bestselling author) reveals why Gen Z is in CRISIS, including why they're anxious, socially inept, and addicted to technology. PLUS....is there HOPE? Haidt shares his BOLD plan for collective action to restore a "human childhood"! Jonathan Haidt also breaks down: - Physical & social causes and symptoms of tech addiction in kids - How losing trust in neighbors & institutions is destroying our children's innocence - Why the devastating impact of shame on kids is worse than you think - Are half-measures enough when it comes to curbing your child's tech use? - Boys vs. Girls Online: How social media algorithms are designed to target and hook our kids - Why free play is essential for development into competent adults - How some level of adversity in childhood leads to critical problem-solving skills in adulthood Find yourself wondering why it seems impossible to curb your child's screen time? Don't let your kid become a STATISTIC - TUNE IN to MBB now for practical resources to protect their future!

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0:00.0	Young people now are spending between 7 and 10 hours a day on their phones.
0:07.6	Half of all kids say that they're online almost constantly.
0:10.8	They have no ability to be present when they are with people. And so this is a huge loss of human experience.
0:17.6	2010 to 2015, teen mental health plummets in all the English-speaking countries when teenagers move their social lives
0:25.4	onto smartphones and social media.
0:27.7	They have no more roots, they're not anchored in a community, they're not connected
0:30.4	to real people as much, they're not playing outside, they're not moving their bodies as much,
0:34.9	they're not getting sunshine, they're not reading books. You take away from all that and you put them on
0:39.5	platforms that have been designed by the most powerful companies in the world who are hiring the best
0:44.8	psychologists who study brain development so that they know how to maximally hook kids.
0:49.9	And this is why mental health collapses growing up on a stage where it's like the Truman Show except that you know the audience is there.
0:56.0	And everything you do, people are watching you and they're either applauding or booing.
1:00.0	Everything. You're going to be a very, very different person if everything you do is being
1:03.3	evaluated all the time with instant feedback.
1:05.5	So these are really, really sick ways to grow up.
1:07.8	They all know that if you say one thing that someone takes offense to, there is no limit to how bad this can be for you because it can get picked up in a viral world.
1:15.8	It can go beyond the school. It could become a national thing.
1:18.6	And you can want to kill yourself from the blowback of that.
1:21.8	Shame makes people want to disappear. Shame makes people want to disappear.
1:23.6	Shame makes people want to die.
1:25.6	When kids are being publicly shamed,
1:27.0	everyone's laughing at them, pointing to them,
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