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Forget horror movies, Jonathan Haidt's new book 'The Anxious Generation' is one of the scariest books I've ever read. We all know that our smartphones aren't really
good for us, but Jonathan Haidt lays out the real damage in such detail that it makes you want to look away and scroll through Instagram instead.
He argues that smartphones are addictive, disrupt sleep, fragment attention and deprive people of interaction with the real world. As if that wasn't bad enough, he scares us
by analyzing that the brains of teenagers who use smartphones with social media apps during the sensitive developmental phase of puberty are being altered as a
result, and that this is leading to an epidemic of mental illness in young people. Who hasn't heard of recent studies reporting a significant increase in mental illness among young people? Haidt points out the real causes of these
changes. There are solutions to the problem, but it won't be easy. More in this short BrainCandy Podcast.
Shownotes with links: https://en.ka-brandresearch.com/braincandies/
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By Ralph Uwe OhnemusForget horror movies, Jonathan Haidt's new book 'The Anxious Generation' is one of the scariest books I've ever read. We all know that our smartphones aren't really
good for us, but Jonathan Haidt lays out the real damage in such detail that it makes you want to look away and scroll through Instagram instead.
He argues that smartphones are addictive, disrupt sleep, fragment attention and deprive people of interaction with the real world. As if that wasn't bad enough, he scares us
by analyzing that the brains of teenagers who use smartphones with social media apps during the sensitive developmental phase of puberty are being altered as a
result, and that this is leading to an epidemic of mental illness in young people. Who hasn't heard of recent studies reporting a significant increase in mental illness among young people? Haidt points out the real causes of these
changes. There are solutions to the problem, but it won't be easy. More in this short BrainCandy Podcast.
Shownotes with links: https://en.ka-brandresearch.com/braincandies/