Andrew Huberman: belief

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…It’s mostly guys, so it’s just a lot of brothers and I think two sisters. I just had Jonathan Haidt on the podcast, the guy who was talking about the anxious generation, coddling the American mind. He’s great. But he was saying that in order to keep kids healthy, they need to not be on social media or have smartphones until they’re 16. I’ve actually been thinking a lot about getting a bunch of friends onto neighboring properties. Everyone talks about this. Not creating a commune or anything like that, but I think Jonathan’s right. We were more or less… Our brain wiring does best when we are raised in small village type environments where kids can forage the whole free-range kids idea. And I grew up skateboarding and building forts and dirt clod wars and all that stuff. It would be so strange to have a childhood without that. Yeah, and I think more and more as we wake up to the negative aspects of digital interaction, we’ll put more and more value to in-person interaction.…

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