Dr. Anna Lembke

And what we're creating is a generation of distracted kids who don't know how to learn.

Because learning occurs in that moment of friction and delayed gratification.

It is the not knowing that allows our brains to create new synapses, which is the definition of learning something, right?

And so, again, we have to...

get back to having slow tech spaces in the schools where kids can experience frustration tolerance and have to actually have enough time and space to have a thought and learn how to express it and write it down on their own.

I mean, we need to do just that, right?

There needs to be guardrails.

Yeah.

Kids don't, they're not allowed to buy cigarettes or alcohol or go into casinos and gamble.

We recognize that the developing brain is especially vulnerable.

That's what you said earlier.

We're not serving them ice cream for breakfast.

We know that.

Yeah, we know that.

So we need these guardrails.

And, you know, I applaud Australia and I applaud other countries like South Korea that have gotten smartphones out of schools.

I applaud states here in the United States that are moving to, you know, create these guardrails.

We have to try things out.

We have to.

And we also, importantly, have to hold the corporations that make and profit from these digital drugs accountable, right?