Jonathan Haidt

I was out of the country.

And so I just let my, you know, I didn't plug into Wi-Fi.

And I found, you know, markedly, a marked change in my mood, my sleep, everything.

And I'm not even 20 years old on TikTok.

And it was so different.

And so this study found that just two weeks of continuing to use your device, but just not having internet access, improved your attention, well-being, and mental health.

And in this population, it was all adults.

It wasn't kids.

It was all adults.

Found that 91% of people had an improvement in at least one of these metrics.

And then another study more recently, just one week of not engaging in social media,

digital detox, they called it, did the same thing.

Better, less anxiety, less depression, decreased insomnia.

But my feeling is that there is this new kind of meme, right?

Like the millennial urge to delete my internet presence and live off the grid.

There is certainly utility to that.

And I salute anyone who wants to engage in that analog life more and more.

But

From where I sit, I feel like we do need to have healthier boundaries and engage more responsibly.

It also builds up that muscle and it can help, you know, it takes eight weeks to do.