Dr. Todd Rose

And I will say one thing, which is one of my favorite psychologists, the humanist Carl Rogers, said all of problems in society from nations against nations, groups against groups, boil down to individuals at war with themselves.

When we start to misrepresent our views, when we self-silence to fit in, we're at war with ourselves.

That's right.

So you're internalizing all the downside and you don't recognize it.

And what's funny is we don't connect those dots.

We start seeing our health start to fail.

We see our mental health start to deteriorate.

And we look for all these reasons.

I don't think it's coincidental.

I don't think it's the only cause, but I think it's coincidental that our youngest generation that was literally born online has this skyrocketing anxiety and mental health challenges that are real.

And they're coming from a number of places.

Right.

But for sure.

Because we know in our data that Gen Z is self-silencing at the highest rate of any demographic that we've ever studied.

Because they're online more than anybody else.

Because when I'm in person, I get a lot more cues.

First of all, I know they're real people.

I know a lot of them.

When I'm online, I'm getting inundated with likes, with stuff pushed to me repeatedly.

And remember, your brain's going, loudest voices repeated the most are the majority.