The Anxious Generation How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Hi guys, it's Tony Robbins, you're listening to Habits and Hustle. ... He's an NYU professor and the bestselling author of the book Anxious Generation.

All right, so today on the podcast we have Jonathan Haidt, who is the author of The Anxious Generation.

I should have bought your book in bulk because I've sent your book, and I bought your book to probably like 40 people already, 50 people.

The book came out March 26th of last year, and it spread like wildfire around the world. Legislators read it.

Well, here's where I really like and agree with what John Hyde says in the opening chapters of The Anxious Generation.

What's the name of that? Anxious Generation.

The Anxious Generation, the book by Jonathan Haidt, we're not evolved to stare at a screen 18 inches away all day, all the time.

He's just written this wonderful book called The Anxious Generation

Kids across the world are experiencing a mental health crisis and smartphones are too blame. That's the thesis of a new book by Jonathan hate called the anxious generation that's only been out one week but has already renewed a fierce debate about the relationship between social media and social media.

he's criticized these addictive features that social media apps have rolled out that have just kept kids glued to their smartphones glued to their notifications that come from Instagram and TikTok.

spending a lot of time with your face buried in your phone instead of playing outside is not how children are supposed to be living so some people are saying let's just get out in front of it now even if we can't absolutely nail the data down let's just do what makes sense.

the most important thing is getting phones out of schools put them in lockers or special pouches during the day he also wants to keep smartphones out of kids before high school so they can have basic phones without access to the internet

he said that is sort of a by all these three things are bipartisan ideas that every lawmaker can get behind every company can get behind actually not companies because they want to hook users earlier I rescind my remarks but those are some of the solutions that he puts forward this is a debate we're going to have for the next months and years.

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt has become a book that a lot of schools are recommending to parents and they're limiting how much kids are allowed to use screens during schools as well, which is a great step forward.

I'm reading this great book now out called the anxious generation.

A lot of her research is cited in this New York Times bestselling book, The Anxious Generation by NYU professor John Haidt.

So this thesis that John Haidt advances in The Anxious Generation is that the young people today, think Gen Z essentially, like they grew up in a completely different environment than he grew up in, than I grew up in, than our parents grew up in. And the big change is social media, this technological invention.

The book, The Anxious Generation, says that increases in social media have led to increases in anxiety.

Part of what led the governor of Arkansas to this campaign is a book she read called The Anxious Generation. And it is a very popular book right now among parents and educators.

The author, who is a New York area professor, writes this book where he looks at the rates of anxiety and depression among young people and teenagers around the time that we started using smartphones.

And what he's found is that there is a clear correlation between the increase and rapid increase of cases of anxiety and mental health issues among children and in particular college students that began once smartphones came into the picture.

I'm arguing in the book, in The Anxious Generation, is that now we know, we didn't know in 2012 when we were letting our kids out, but now we know we've overprotected our kids in the real world and we've underprotected them online.

And so I'd like to give your listeners, especially those who are parents, the word thrills. Thrills are biologically important. Kids need thrills.

One of the most surprising graphs in the book is when we found data on hospital admissions for fractures.

So the CDC tracks who's going to hospitals and for what.

And so they have all this data on who's admitted to hospitals for broken arms and legs, you know, broken bones.

It describes how smartphones and social media have led to a mental health crisis among teens especially among teenage girls.

In the book, I acknowledge gender dysphoria is real.

This is exactly what happened to her.

So now the debate has shifted from, oh, it's all correlational to okay, fine. You've got experiments, but they're not very good experiments.

The story for girls in social media was so clear in the data from the time I started working on this.

It'll be moderated by the renowned social psychologist and bestselling author Jonathan Haidt, who wrote that fantastic book, The Anxious Generation, where both can be talking about attention and its extraction.

It will be held at the Great Hall in Cooper Union right here in New York City on Thursday, February 5th at 7 p.m. It'll be moderated by the renowned social psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt, who wrote the very, very bestseller Anxious Generation.

And I just look at what Professor Haidt has accomplished in the last two years with his book, The Anxious Generation. And he's so reasoned and thoughtful and bipartisan and shows up with so much work and is so measured.