"You are actively rewiring your brain for the worst by engaging with social media, high volume, quick videos. >> And the social media executives don't let their kids use this stuff because they designe..."

"Jonathan, I've heard you say that the destruction of attention is the largest threat to humanity that's happening around the world. And I've also heard you say that short form videos are the worst of ..."

"today. >> You know, scrolling, wasting a bit of time doesn't seem so harmful. What is the big, if we play this forward 10, 20, 30 years, what is the big risk or threat? The biggest threat right now, w..."

">> And to add to that, you know, from the medical perspective, you're shortening this attention span. And what happens over time is so like Jonathan said, right, you're not sleeping as well because yo..."

"done in 2025 of 71 different studies and it found that heavy short form video use was associated with reduced thinking ability, especially shorter attention spans and weaker impulse control. >> That's..."

"platforms that I speak to speak to have a huge drive towards short form video it is it appears to be their number one strategic priority and obviously because of the success of Tik Tok as of January 2..."

"think no. >> Yes, there are all these small tweaks you can do and they will make the heroin a little bit less addictive. And yeah, you should try those. But what I can say after teaching this course f..."

"sent our kids out into the world and it wasn't just that there was junk food in all the stores. was that everything was made of junk food. You know, you you know, the door handles, you can eat it. It'..."

">> Yeah. No, that's right. And so, you know, in terms of who's done the damage to kids, Meta is the big fish via Instagram. And they're also the main player in terms of spending a huge amount of money..."

"Oh, I mean so many reasons why >> use it as for companionship, for example. >> There's so many red flags about AI chat bots. And so Reddit has a forum. It's uh I think last I checked 45,000 people. AI..."

">> You talked earlier about deleting these apps from our phone. I probably should have represented the rebuttal, which will be, well, I I need this for my business. Increasingly, people need Tik Tok t..."

"lost that. And so there's this thing called the default mode um network which I think is important to think about right now as we're thinking about AI and what's going to happen and how it's going to ..."

">> All I had to do was brain dump. Imagine if you had someone with you at all times that could take the ideas you have in your head, synthesize them with AI to make them sound better and more grammati..."

"We asked our audience how many of them thought they were addicted to their phone. And roughly 85% of respondents, the driver audience described themselves as being very or completely addicted to >> ve..."

">> You talked about popcorn brain editing. >> Yeah. So, you know, we've talked about brain rot and the primal scroll and popcorn brain is kind of an offshoot. It's part of the same family. And so what..."

"something that is very specific. The other thing that we haven't talked about that I would love to kind of because so much of our conversation is like doom and gloom, right? It's likew one thing that ..."

"actually seeing an increase of laws in the UK. I mean, Australia just banned, I think, social media for people. >> You met with Mcronone, >> right? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Could you ever have imagined? And ..."

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"audience about 6 and a half hours a day on their phones. Um, short form video is only going to get more addictive. AI is going to know me more. It's going to be more personalized. The content is going..."

"this graph on page 195 of your book um which is titled life often feels meaningless and it's the graph you mentioned I'll throw it up on the screen is shocking shocking just to look at suddenly there'..."

"perspective is a meaningful life and how does it differ from from Jonathan's >> I loved Jonathan's description it was so beautiful that I have given a prescription to patients of what creates a meanin..."

">> I would add stop, breathe, be that you >> breathe be. >> It's a 3 second brain reset. So you before you check your devices, before you engage, stop, breathe, and be ground yourself in the present m..."