The Hidden Dangers Of Social Media On Mental Health - Jonathan Haidt - #766

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, friends. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Jonathan Haidt. He's a professor at New York University, Stern School of Business, a social psychologist and an author. The kids are not all right. Mental health is plummeting while anxiety and depression are on the rise. Just what are the contributing elements? Is it social media, helicopter parenting, 24 hour news or something else? Expect to learn why every generation complains about the next one. What is so important about the development of kids between eight and 12 years old? What the biggest problem is with test scores in primary school children? The real harm of technology on kids? Why words like trigger and fragility are such a problem? If there is a way to do identity politics well? And much more. So the big announcement that I have been playing around with for quite a while since a couple of weeks ago when we filmed the world's first ever five camera podcast on the biggest video wall in Texas. This is basically the same technology that they filmed the Mandalorian on, which is a photorealistic background that sits behind the subjects. And then you match the lighting in front of it to the backdrop and it creates this super immersive sense that the people are sat in whatever environment you've created. So the first episode goes live with Dr. K this Monday. Healthy Gamer, phenomenal episode, great insights about mental health and improving your resilience, your robustness, how to integrate emotions and love and stuff. But more than that, it is technically unbelievably hard to do this and we pulled it off. So yeah, get ready for Monday and check out the YouTube channel to see some previews of what we're going to do. I'm super excited. Thank you to everyone who's already commented on how the clip looks and made them feel and stuff. I really think this is, this is cool. There's not much stuff you can do that no one else has done before. And this is one of them. So thank you. 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