Jonathan Haidt

I'd say read Cal Newport.

I assigned the book Deep Work.

It's a fantastic book.

And it'll really change the way you see what's happening to us adults.

I am wildly more optimistic.

I'm optimistic by nature, but I've been working on democracy issues since the early 2000s.

And I'm not optimistic there.

I mean, the problems are huge, and I don't know the answers.

And that's what my next book is going to be on.

But on this one, on can we roll back the phone-based childhood, I was kind of optimistic last year.

And now I am just, I'm wildly optimistic because it's happening.

It's happening at lightning speed.

I can't believe how fast it's happening.

The number of schools, the number of states, the number of countries that have acted in the last six months is mind-blowing.

I've never seen anything like it.

And that's especially schools and governments.

Every day I'm getting emails from parents saying, thank you, my friends and I, we did a reading group on the book, and now we're all doing this together, and all the families at the end of our street, and the kids are playing, and they're riding their bicycles.

So it's not as though our children have somehow biologically forgotten how to ride a bicycle, and they're still thrilled to be out from under your thumb.

They're thrilled to have some independence.

So this is happening.