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Lael Stone - Creating Emotionally Intelligent Humans

The Imperfects

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Is Technology the Ultimate of Numbing?

As kids, we learn that by watching what our parents do, when they're upset or stressed or they have feelings, do they repress it? So as little kids, if it's not a caterfield, they go into that kind of numbing state and then they check out. That's why technology, why kids, it's just such a goldmine for them because it's the ultimate of numbing. And that's why kids often, we see a lot of addictions with technology because a lot of it is about repressing those feelings that we're not expressing normally. We have repression. We have aggression. I absolutely do not believe there's such a thing as a bad

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