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A second clue is that the surge is concentrated in Gen Z, with some spillover to younger millennials.
Jonathan Haidt • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Ezra Klein • Opinion | We Know Shockingly Little About What Makes Humanity Prosper
My central claim in this book is that these two trends—overprotection in the real world and underprotection in the virtual world—are the major reasons why children born after 1995 became the anxious generation.
Jonathan Haidt • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
“hereditary genius.” He studied how traits such as intelligence and creativity were passed on within particular families.
Jonathan Mooney • Normal Sucks
One benefit of knowing the science is a kind of protective skepticism. It should make us deeply suspicious of any enterprise that offers a formula for making babies smarter or teaching them more, from flash cards to Mozart tapes to Better Baby Institutes. Everything we know about babies suggests that these artificial interventions are at best usele
... See moreAlison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, • The Scientist In The Crib: Minds, Brains, And How Children Learn
Years later, however, when the test was repeated in a much larger and more diverse population, researchers realized that children from privileged families had an easier time resisting the treat because they knew another marshmallow would always come their way. Better life outcomes had to do with affluence, not self-control.
Adriana Barton • Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound
Erik Hoel • Why We Stopped Making Einsteins
This means there’s a lot of intelligence out there being wasted by underestimating students’ potential to develop.