Jonathan Haidt: Here's How We Can Free The Anxious Generation (E323)
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Before we get started, let me tell you you can now listen to High Performance Add Free. Start your free trial now on Apple, Spotify, or head to our website so you can listen to our episodes uninterrupted. Take everything important out of childhood and replace it with millions and millions of 15 second TikTok videos and Instagram posts. That's what we've done. Social media is the worst of the worst. It's the thing, especially for girls, that is really damaging them. Boys are getting ever more addicted to video games, to porn. We can change this if we act together. The phone based childhood is only twelve years old. It started in twenty twelve, twenty thirteen. We can realize we made a huge, huge mistake and we can undo it, and we're going to. That powerful voice you just heard belongs to Jonathan Heights, one of the world's leading and most important social psychologists, the best selling author and a true authority on human behavior and the complex challenges of our modern world. I'm Jake Humphrey, and alongside our expert co-host, Damien Hughes, we're on a mission to uncover the mindsets, ideas, and experiences behind the world's greatest high performers. But this conversation with Jonathan
It's different. Myself and Damien are both parents. Like many of you listening to this, we're in that difficult world of trying to navigate the use of mobile phones, the use of social media, and keeping our children safe online. You're about to hear from Jonathan. that he believes we're overprotecting children in the real world. When we need to give them even more freedom.
And we're under protecting them. In the online world. Where we need To take control. As he explains in this
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