Dr. Alok Kanojia

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 365: Dr. Alok Kanojia Explains How to Raise Healthy Gamers · 12 Mar 2024 podcast

But now, like parents are having to deal with this stuff at the age of one, two, three.

So there's never been a parenting generation that has had to deal with such a pervasive and addictive substance that is kind of infiltrating every corner of our lives.

So my parents didn't know what to do.

I ended up basically failing out of college after one year I was on academic probation.

After a second year, it was not very optimistic.

and so my parents tried everything they tried to use tough love they tried to use you know love love and nothing was basically working so my dad told me to go to india and i wasn't quite sure what i would find there but i ended up staying at an ashram for about three months started really getting introduced to meditation fell in love with it and then decided to become a monk so i spent seven years studying to become a monk really helped me overcome my addiction

And then ended up meeting my wife.

So the whole monk thing didn't work out.

And then I was trying to figure out.

So like now I'm 27, 28 years old and trying to figure out what I want to do with my life.

So I decided that I want to try to go to med school.

So I ended up going to medical school, becoming a psychiatrist.

And then when I was training at Harvard in my psychiatry residency, was really stunned because I was talking to my mentors about technology addiction and what they thought about it and who's working on it.

I was super surprised because they were like, yeah, we sort of know it's a thing, but it's not really like a big thing right now.

This was back in 2015, 2016.

And so I started really focusing on tech addiction and trying to combine my own lived experience of struggling with addiction, failing out of college, sort of introducing some of these Eastern concepts that I think we're starting to see a lot in the field of psychiatry, like mindfulness, and then really trying to help gamers.

So my target audience was not actually parents.

It was younger versions of myself.

So teenagers, young adults, 25-year-olds who are living in their parents' basement, haven't had a job, play video games all day.

And so that's where we kind of got started.

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