Larissa May

And what I mean by that is that if you want to watch something, watch it together.

If you want to scroll, scroll together.

when you're going to bed with your partner and you're on your devices or you're sitting in a room with your kids, a term I call fubbing, when you're all on your phones.

Guilty.

I mean, we've all been there, but it's one of the great golden rules that we can start implementing.

And at the end of the day, the kids are looking at us, and we are modeling that future.

And we need to be able to show them, hey, even though the headlines say that you're a victim and that you're anxious and you're depressed, that's not a story that is going to empower someone to be up on the stage.

I pulled myself out of that story, and so I want the next generation of young people to know that it is possible and that when social media is used as a tool, it can change the world.

I love that you asked this question, and I'm going to give my tip at the end on this, but ultimately, the way that technology was designed was for us to be passive consumers.

We were never trained to interact with it.

any other way.

And therefore, many of us, starting at a young age, are caught in this doom loop, in this vicious cycle of, I'm going to die, the world is going to end, I'm never going to have a job, what's the point of studying?

The world is burning, kids are dying.

However,

I believe and I know that when we retrain our minds and we teach our kids to engage with technology with an intention, to lead with creativity and the imagination muscle, that we can actually activate joy and fight against the doom loop into the joy loop, which is really where we take back our creative power and say, you know what?

I'm going to be the creator of my own digital story and my own digital world.

And instead of you hacking me, big tech, I'm going to hack my devices so I can take back control of my life.

Absolutely.

Well, and looking at all these tools in the ecosystem, I saw that parents were stalking kids, but there was basically broken product market fit because kids, I'm going to be really honest, they're smarter than all of us.

They break through everything.