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Andrew Huberman
Jun 10, 2024
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How Smartphones & Social Media Impact Mental Health & the Realistic Solutions | Dr. Jonathan Haidt
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Flip Phone
“Norm number one, no smartphone before high school. You can give your kid a flip phone.”
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1:34:51
Flip Phone
Tools
“Norm number one, no smartphone before high school. You can give your kid a flip phone.”
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1:34:51
No Smartphone or Personal Internet Device Before High School
Behaviors
“Norm number one, no smartphone before high school. You can give your kid a flip phone.”
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1:35:18
Shared Family Computer in Living Room or Kitchen
Tools
“And you can have a computer in your living room or kitchen when you have young kids and they can do things on the computer.”
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1:35:46
No Social Media Until 16
Behaviors
“Rule number two is the most relevant for what we're just talking about. And that is no social media until 16.”
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1:38:32
Phone-Free Schools
Behaviors
“The third norm is phone-free schools. And again, we expect kids to learn, and learning is brain change.”
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1:39:50
Phone Lock
Tools
“You have to lock up the phone in the morning, either in a phone lock or a yonder pouch.”
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1:39:50
Yondr Pouch
Tools
“You have to lock up the phone in the morning, either in a phone lock or a yonder pouch.”
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1:40:06
More Independence, Free Play, and Responsibility in the Real World
Behaviors
“And the fourth norm is the hardest. The fourth norm is far more independence, free play, and responsibility in the real world.”
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1:50:40
Phone-Free Summer Camp
Behaviors
“Never send your child to a summer camp that doesn't ban phones because this is the best chance you have for a detox.”
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1:51:06
Summer Camp
Tools
“So summer camps are the most powerful technique known for a detox because the kid isn't being deprived. They are in a bunk with other kids with no phones and they're joking and talking and laughing and fighting and doing all those healthy things.”
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1:51:22
Team Sports
Behaviors
“The other thing that the evidence shows is that team sports and religion, those two things are very, very protective. So I would strongly urge people to encourage their kids to play team sports.”
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1:51:46
Informal Intramural-Style Sports
Behaviors
“You don't want super-duper, over-supervised, high-pressure sports leagues. I mean, that's better than nothing. But ideally, the more they play games that are more intramural, informal, the kids are enforcing the rules, all of that would be better.”
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1:52:49
Cooperative Music Participation
Behaviors
“Yes. Playing in a band or singing in a choir, I think definitely should be. For a while, I was really interested in synchrony.”
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2:00:34
Turn Off Almost All Notifications
Behaviors
“You got to regain control of your attention you got to shut off almost all notifications. You leave on Uber because you want Uber to interrupt you to say the car is three minutes away.”
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2:00:53
Remove Social Media from Your Phone
Behaviors
“Get social media off your phone. If you need to use it, you can use it on your computer.”
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2:01:18
Awe Walk
Behaviors
“And then the other one that I did that is really memorable... is an awe walk. And just walking in a beautiful environment, walk a little more slowly than usual. Don't have anything in your ears. Don't be listening to music. Don't even bring your phone and just notice.”
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2:06:18
Spend Two Hours Outside Daily
Behaviors
“I can just tell you, looking at things up close, a lot not good, the eyeball lengthens, you become nearsighted, which is why spending two hours outside, even if on a tablet has been shown to offset myopia and thousands of people, children.”
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2:11:32
No Phones at the Table
Behaviors
“So actually there, modeling collective behaviors like a meal, I think that is actually very, very valuable. But if it's just that you're often multitasking, you're often on your phone, yeah, be nice if you didn't, but that's not going to push your kid over into phone addiction.”
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2:15:22
Free Play Friday
Behaviors
“Give them, say, here, you know what? How about every Friday? Let's call it free play Friday. No piano lessons on Friday, no nothing on Friday. Fridays, you all get together. You can start at anyone's house, go out, do what you want.”
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2:20:18
Let Children Ride Their Bicycle Independently
Behaviors
“My 60-year-old, he wanted to ride his bicycle down to the end of our cul-de-sac. He wanted to ride down, circle, and come back... But once I read your book, I decided to let him. And he was so ecstatic. He kept doing it and doing it. And now he's going further and he rides to his friends' houses.”