Bill Maher

That's just the simple takeaway.

So when the phone's out of the room, you see what looks like a boost in cognitive performance.

It's actually just getting people to baseline.

And this is something, it reminds me of David Goggins, the guy who's a former Navy SEAL.

He's always running around and shouting and this kind of thing, and super high performer in the physical domain, who's now actually studying to become a paramedic.

And he said it perfectly.

He said, it's never been easier nowadays

to outperform your peers.

But it's mostly a function now of what you don't do.

Just putting your phone away gives you what looks like a cognitive boost, but it just puts you on par with all the generations before you that didn't have phones in the room.

So to succeed now as a young person,

it's much harder unless you're able to abstain from interactions with short form video mostly and the phone generally.

Now I'm really dating myself.

Heaven's Gate, I think it was a cult, I think they castrated themselves, shaved their heads in war.

Oh, the Heaven's Gate cult.

The Heaven's Gate cult.

Right.

Right, that was sort of the MySpace of cults.

I remember that fad.

I didn't realize Tucker was associated with that.