Episode · The Rich Roll Podcast · 2024-04-22
Books mentioned on Jonathan Haidt On How Social Media Is Rewiring Childhood
This week, I am joined by Jonathan Haidt, an NYU professor and best-selling author, to discuss the significant negative impact of technology and social media on young people’s mental health and well-being.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Anxious Generation
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt investigates the profound psychological and developmental toll that modern smartphones, social media, and a decline in unsupervised play have inflicted on today's youth.
Discussed“in Jonathan's latest work the anxious generation he examines the ways in which social media is fundamentally altering how children grow how they interact and perceive the world around them”
Where to get it
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Suicide
Suicide by Émile Durkheim is a foundational sociological study originally published in 1897 that examines how societal structures, integration, and a state of normlessness influence self-destructive behavior.
Discussed“and as Emil durkheim showed than 100 years ago in his book on suicide when you have anomy or normlessness people don't feel free”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (11) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book The Anxious Generation
“right so in the book in Chapter 2 and three I I spent a lot of time going into what childhood is”
Own book The Anxious Generation
“the book is focused on the great rewiring which is 2010 to 2015”
Own book The Anxious Generation
“a couple of my favorite graphs in the book favorite in that they're you know kind of horrible but uh they're dramatic”
Own book The Anxious Generation
“in digging into the data on addiction what I what I found what you what what I report in the book um is that video games are not particularly harmful for boys in general and on average whereas social media is harmful to girls in general and on average not all but a lot you know”
Own book The Anxious Generation
“so what I do in the anxious generation is I lay out what childhood is what adolescence is um and how we subverted it”
Own book The Happiness Hypothesis
“my first book was called the happiness hypothesis finding modern truth and ancient wisdom”
Own book The Happiness Hypothesis
“and that's something that I took from the happiness hypothesis that around the world you you see many cultures talk about a vertical dimension of life”
Own book The Anxious Generation
“that's what I do in the book”
Own book Voicing Change
“my books Finding Ultra voicing change in the plant power way as well as the plant power meal planner at meals. rich.com”
Own book Finding Ultra
“my books Finding Ultra voicing change in the plant power way as well as the plant power meal planner at meals. rich.com”
Own book The Plantpower Way
“my books Finding Ultra voicing change in the plant power way as well as the plant power meal planner at meals. rich.com”