Jonathan Haidt On How to Solve the Teen Mental Health Crisis

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🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Suicides. Self harm. Depression and anxiety. The toll of a social media-addicted, phone-based childhood has never been more stark. It can be easy for teens, parents and schools to feel like they’re trapped by it all. But in this conversation with Tristan Harris, author and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt makes the case that the conditions that led to today’s teenage mental health crisis can be turned around – with specific, achievable actions we all can take starting today.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Riston.
0:05.0	And in a moment you're going to hear a discussion that I had with the author and social
0:10.4	psychologist Jonathan Hight about his new book, The Anxious Generation,
0:14.9	how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness.
0:19.9	And I interviewed John in front of a live audience in San Francisco just earlier this month.
0:23.9	Towards the end of our talk, John says something kind of profound.
0:27.6	That the biggest opponent we face when it comes to turning the social media crisis around is resignation.
0:35.8	We've all been so trapped in our reliance on these platforms.
0:39.1	The bad incentive seems so baked in and everyone is just using it. It seems like it could never change.
0:45.0	And while it's indeed difficult to change the tide for all of social media,
0:50.0	that doesn't mean it would be impossible to change this for kids
0:54.7	So imagine a world where 2024 was the year it all turned around
0:59.9	Imagine that the anxious generation did to social media,
1:03.0	what Rachel Carson's silent spring did to catalyze the environmental movement in the 1960s.
1:09.0	Imagine a world where hundreds of thousands of schools went phone free, and having a flip phone
1:14.7	was actually cool.
1:16.3	Imagine millions of fed-up parents joined Mothers Against Media
1:19.8	Addiction, or Mama, and lobbied their states
1:22.1	to pass age-appropriate design codes.
1:24.0	Imagine that led to passing the Kids Online Safety Act in Washington.
1:28.0	Imagine a world where parents' lives got simpler and less stressful
1:32.0	because the rates of self-harm, depression, and
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