Jonathan Haidt

And only when she focused on analog activities like guitar playing and a couple of other things that she started doing is when – and removing the stimulus, the TikTok algorithm, is when she started to improve.

So it's not just in the moment, oh, I can't remember something or I'm more irritable.

These sorts of things compound and the long-term sequelae or the long-term effects can be quite damaging.

That's just one example.

It's an interesting thing that you bring up, Stephen, because there is an increase in adult onset, you know, when adults are diagnosed with ADHD because typically we think of ADHD as a pediatric condition or young adults.

And so increasingly we're seeing more and more adults who are in their 30s and 40s, 50s sometimes, even 60s, who are being diagnosed, newly diagnosed with ADHD.

And so that's an interesting – there's so many, you know, reasons.

Like it might be that they –

had it all along and they were diagnosed and so what is going on there that would be a future podcast episode for an adhd expert of you know what are the drivers of why are so many adults being diagnosed with adhd or maybe even just the symptoms looking very similar yeah that's right you talk about popcorn brain aditya

Yeah.

So, you know, we've talked about brain rot and the primal earth to scroll and popcorn brain is kind of an offshoot.

It's part of the same family.

And so what happens is it's a term coined by a man, a psychologist named David Levy.

And what happens with popcorn brain is that you, and we all have it.

And so what it is a societal phenomenon when you spend too much time online and you are overstimulated.

And so it is hard for you to spend time offline.

Offline feels slow, boring.

Mm-hmm.

Because things are moving at a much slower pace.

And so popcorn brain is the sensation of your brain popping.