TED Talks Daily Book Club: The Anxious Generation | Jonathan Haidt
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🗓️ 25 August 2024
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Summary
Join Elise as she interviews TED speakers about their latest books and delves deep into their ideas.
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt's latest book, “The Anxious Generation,” is shaping cultural conversations -- and sparking fierce debates. The #1 NYT best seller investigates the mental health crisis among young people, and argues the cause is clear: a smartphone-based childhood, amplified by overprotective parenting.
Informed by Jonathan's work, there is an international movement to limit cellphones in schools and families. But is that the right path forward? And if it is, how do you shift something so socially entrenched?
Join Elise, Jonathan and TED Members for a lively exploration of these questions and more. This live conversation was recorded as part of the TED membership program. TED Members are invited to attend our live recordings and participate in Q&As with authors. To join in on the fun, sign up at go.ted.com/membership.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're listening to TED Talks Daily. I'm your host Elise Hugh, and today the final |
| 0:07.8 | edition of our Summer Book Club series, where I interview authors who have taken the TED stage about their latest books and dig deeper into their big ideas. |
| 0:17.0 | I want to take a second to sit with something. |
| 0:20.0 | In 2007 Apple released the first iPhone changing cell phones forever. |
| 0:25.0 | Today, 90% of Americans own a smartphone. |
| 0:28.0 | 90, which means that in less than two decades, how we live has transformed as this whole parallel |
| 0:34.7 | universe of entertainment information and each other has opened up always just a tap |
| 0:40.1 | away. Gen. Zee is now the first generation that grew up with this reality in a kind of grand |
| 0:45.2 | social experiment on childhood. In his latest book, The Anxious Generation, Social Psychologist |
| 0:51.4 | Jonathan Hite makes the case that the results are not good. |
| 0:55.1 | He supports his argument with a parade of data that shows that in 2010 the mental health of young people |
| 0:59.5 | started to tumble and has not recovered. |
| 1:02.8 | His take is bold. |
| 1:04.3 | His solutions are too. |
| 1:05.8 | And a number of other social scientists |
| 1:07.6 | have disagreed with him publicly, |
| 1:10.0 | which I think makes it all the more important |
| 1:12.2 | for us to discuss how have smartphones changed |
| 1:15.2 | childhood is that what we want and if not what can we do to change something that is so |
| 1:20.8 | widespread today we're talking about something that is so widespread. |
| 1:23.0 | Today we're talking about his book. |
| 1:26.0 | Then we open it up to questions from our audience of Ted members. |
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