Dr. Dave Rabin

And so screens.

And when you learn from screens...

you're not learning from a human.

So you don't have the safety of the human to human teaching mentorship of kind of having your handheld through learning stuff, which safety also allocates resources to learning via the vagus nerve.

Learning is shut down.

Learning new things is completely, almost completely shut down when we're in a stressed state.

That's why it's so hard to remember stuff when you're stressed.

Holy crap.

Because...

Why would you want your body to allocate resources to learning when there could be a saber-toothed tiger around the corner?

It's just that simple.

So the body just says, nope, no learning.

I just care about fight or flight.

There could be a tiger.

Even if there's no tiger, if we're overwhelmed, then we default to survival.

That's what our nervous system evolved to do.

This is, again, hundreds of millions of years old.

So that nervous system hardwiring results in us basically, again, being in this chronic fear state that prevents the body from learning and absorbing new information, not just the supplements and food we put into it, but even new information and making sure that information sticks.

And so when we expose kids to learning new information from screens, and screens themselves are producing blue light and fast-moving things that are changing often, it's overstimulating to the nervous system.

The Wi-Fi too.