Dr. Cal Newport

young women and girls and the video games to actually be the bigger culprit for young men and boys.

There is a bit of a difference here because with the social media impact, the content of what's happening matters in this picture.

What I'm seeing, the engagement I'm having, how this impacts my social life, this is part of the mental distress.

With video games, it seems to be more an impact of just disharmonious passion and obsession, just the time it takes because the games can be incredibly addictive.

So the problem that young men are having are just they're playing it all the time.

I'm staying up late because I have an iPad in my room and I'm 14.

And I'm going to play Fortnite until 3 in the morning because my brain cannot handle like what you're giving me here, right?

So it's less of a content concern than it is just a time concern, right?

That seems more solvable to me.

Like my solution with my own kids, I don't mind video games.

I'm a computer scientist.

But I said nothing that's online, right?

Nothing that was free.

Because if it was free, that means their business model involves getting you to play it all the time so you can upcharge or whatever.

They have Nintendo Switches.

Like I like Nintendo.

Okay, Nintendo Switch.

Here's a $60 Zelda game that someone spent five years making or whatever.

You can only play those games so long at a time before, you know, you're tired.

You come back to it.