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Dr. Phil McGraw

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1372 total appearances

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And so family units were really tight because everybody had to work all day, every day.

And so they'd come in at noon and have a meal, and they'd come back at dinnertime and have dinner.

And everybody worked together on the farm.

But then when things got mechanized with the Industrial Revolution, then people moved to the city.

And we went from 95% agricultural to now it's about 1%.

And that was a huge change in the human race.

And there's not been that big a change until 2008 or 2009.

And that was the advent of the smartphone.

It was like big airplanes flew over the country and dropped smartphones on everybody.

That's the biggest change in society since the Industrial Revolution.

We went from walking around with our heads up like this to down.

People check their phone an average of 352 times a day.

Think about 352 times a day.

Now, that's adults and children alike.

And look what happened to kids.

When I turned 16, when I was 15 and 364 days, 23 hours and 59 minutes, I was at the DMV waiting to get my driver's license, right?

Kids turn 16, they don't even go get their driver's license.