Dr Jared Cooney Horvath

Just nothing is breaking through.

So you give them speed.

And what happens is just same as us, their threshold lowers.

It just started staying high, that when it lowers, it lowers into a more normal level.

Now they can sustain focus.

But we set our threshold to our context.

If I'm in a very quiet spot where nothing is coming in, I can set my threshold real low.

If I'm in a hyper noisy, crazy place, without any problem, I will set my threshold high just to block all the extra noise out.

That's what we're doing.

As a society, I pumped gas earlier today.

there was an advertisement on the gas pump saying something to me.

I'm like, I can't even have this minute to myself?

All right, what do you want me to buy?

There was so much going on that just naturally we've all set our thresholds so high that we're acting as though we have ADHD, but we genuinely don't.

So what can we do in schools?

Reset the threshold.

Just make the context of school much calmer.

We can start to get rid of it.

But instead, we're going to give them screens in schools, which is going to say there's nothing louder or noisier than a screen.

So you're going to set your threshold high when you play with it.