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Dr Anders Hansen

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
156 total appearances

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Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
BITESIZE | How Your Smartphone Is Changing Your Brain, Focus & Mental Health | Dr Anders Hansen #657

There is nothing that is so rewarding in nature as TikTok, for instance.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
BITESIZE | How Your Smartphone Is Changing Your Brain, Focus & Mental Health | Dr Anders Hansen #657

Every time you turn TikTok on, you have a $10 billion artificial intelligence directed towards you to figure out what should I show Rangham so that he doesn't turn off.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
BITESIZE | How Your Smartphone Is Changing Your Brain, Focus & Mental Health | Dr Anders Hansen #657

Because every second of his time on this platform is money for us.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
BITESIZE | How Your Smartphone Is Changing Your Brain, Focus & Mental Health | Dr Anders Hansen #657

And so I think personally that we have been very naive in implementing these incredibly powerful technologies, especially directed to children and teenagers without any regulation.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
BITESIZE | How Your Smartphone Is Changing Your Brain, Focus & Mental Health | Dr Anders Hansen #657

And we feel bad and guilty because we constantly return to our phones.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
BITESIZE | How Your Smartphone Is Changing Your Brain, Focus & Mental Health | Dr Anders Hansen #657

I do that as well.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
BITESIZE | How Your Smartphone Is Changing Your Brain, Focus & Mental Health | Dr Anders Hansen #657

And I've just...

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
BITESIZE | How Your Smartphone Is Changing Your Brain, Focus & Mental Health | Dr Anders Hansen #657

Realize that it's not just about characters.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
BITESIZE | How Your Smartphone Is Changing Your Brain, Focus & Mental Health | Dr Anders Hansen #657

These are very powerful stimuli.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
BITESIZE | How Your Smartphone Is Changing Your Brain, Focus & Mental Health | Dr Anders Hansen #657

And the only way to fix that is to create distance to them.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
BITESIZE | How Your Smartphone Is Changing Your Brain, Focus & Mental Health | Dr Anders Hansen #657

Don't have them around all the time.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
BITESIZE | How Your Smartphone Is Changing Your Brain, Focus & Mental Health | Dr Anders Hansen #657

They are great tools for some things, but don't have them around all the time because they will be too attractive.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
BITESIZE | How Your Smartphone Is Changing Your Brain, Focus & Mental Health | Dr Anders Hansen #657

Where do we end up in 20 years?

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
BITESIZE | How Your Smartphone Is Changing Your Brain, Focus & Mental Health | Dr Anders Hansen #657

I read it.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
BITESIZE | How Your Smartphone Is Changing Your Brain, Focus & Mental Health | Dr Anders Hansen #657

Absolutely, that's a good point.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
BITESIZE | How Your Smartphone Is Changing Your Brain, Focus & Mental Health | Dr Anders Hansen #657

And I think,

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
BITESIZE | How Your Smartphone Is Changing Your Brain, Focus & Mental Health | Dr Anders Hansen #657

Loneliness is something for us that's boring.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
BITESIZE | How Your Smartphone Is Changing Your Brain, Focus & Mental Health | Dr Anders Hansen #657

But historically, loneliness was death.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
BITESIZE | How Your Smartphone Is Changing Your Brain, Focus & Mental Health | Dr Anders Hansen #657

To be excluded from the group, then you were gone.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
BITESIZE | How Your Smartphone Is Changing Your Brain, Focus & Mental Health | Dr Anders Hansen #657

To be part of a group was as important as having food.