How to Protect Your Focus, Motivation, & Mental Health: The $17.1 Billion Wake-Up Call

Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast. I am so glad that you are here with me right now because today Dr. Jonathan Haidt is in our studio. He is a professor at NYU's Stern School of Business and the world's leading researcher on how social media and quick dopamine has devastated people's mental health. Because of Dr.

Haidt's research, Meta has agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion in damages due to the claims that Facebook and Instagram have harmed the mental health of kids, teenagers, and adults everywhere. Dr. Haidt is here today to unpack his groundbreaking research that led to this landmark settlement, and he has a new warning about quick dopamine. and social media and how it has impacted boys very differently than girls.

Now I'm a mom of three kids. We have two daughters and a 21-year-old son. And my husband and I knew about the research that connected social media, quick dopamine, as a causal factor in the rise of anxiety, depression, and mental health issues in girls. But here's what we didn't know. We didn't know the devastating and very different impact that social media and quick dopamine has on a boy's brain.

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