The Smoky Room #1929

I’m typing this on a Friday morning. I just interrupted my AM meditation to make sure I captured the idea.

As I was settling into my meditation, a thought from the final pages of Jonathan Haidt’s powerful book The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness bubbled up into my mind.

In the book, Professor Haidt makes the case that the catastrophic rise in anxiety and depression among the children and adolescents (and now adults) of Gen Z are caused by what he calls “The Great Rewiring.”