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#644: Jonathan Haidt — The Coddling of the American Mind, How to Become Intellectually Antifragile, and How to Lose Anger by Studying Morality

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The Pre-Teen Years: A Time of Transition 2

There is a lot of research pointing to early puberty, around 11 to 13 for girls, 12 to 15 for boys./nWhat's coming into your brain then is really important because your frontal cortex is wiring itself up./nWhen human beings are raised without much independence, but yes, with a phone and they spend their childhood just interacting with the screen and especially social media, I believe it messes up cortical development./nThe rates of anxiety and depression are much more than 100% since 2010./nThe rate of selfharm, hospitalization for self-harm is nearly tripled for preteen girls./nGen Z is in big, big trouble./nThey're hurting, they're fragile, they're not doing well in the workplace, managers are finding them very hard to work with./nThis is the greatest emergency we face, the greatest health emergency./nI think for kids, this is much, much bigger than COVID.

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