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Smartphone use 205 times daily is breaking human brains and destroying meaning
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Why Crazy Activism is Taking Over the West — Harvard Professor Arthur Brooks
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"We check our phones on average 205 times a day which just shoves us into the left side of our brain where not only do we not know the meaning of our lives, we don't even ask the questions. That's why young people are depressed and anxious today. It has to do with how we're using our brains."
Arthur Brooks presents neurological evidence that checking phones 205 times daily forces people into left-brain hemispheric activity focused on information and things, while vacating the right hemisphere responsible for mystery, meaning, and love. This explains rising depression and anxiety rates among young people who have lost the capacity to even formulate questions about life's meaning.
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- Why Crazy Activism is Taking Over the West — Harvard Professor Arthur Brooks
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