Jonathan Haidt

14 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 10, 2024 by Jonathan Haidt · said 12 times in 11 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Jul 10, 2024 neutral
Insight
Haidt: Delaying kids' smartphone access requires collective action and positive alternatives
“It's hard to hold the line on, on your own. It's much easier if you have three of you holding the line, but it's even better if it's not holding a line, it's offering a more positive vision of childhood.”
Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 58:59 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview
Jul 10, 2024 negative
Opinion
Haidt compares shift to algorithmic social media to shift from heroin to fentanyl
“Just as like the move from heroin to fentanyl kills lots and lots of people, because fentanyl is so incredibly concentrated, the move from television to algorithm-driven social media, where It's not just like mass marketed, we think this show, you know, Nielse…”
Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 7:58 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview
Jul 10, 2024 negative
Disclosure
Haidt: The political left is beyond hope after years of trying to advise them
“I spent so many years trying to help the left using moral psychology so that they would stop losing elections, and I finally decided they're beyond hope.”
Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 43:55 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview
Jul 10, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Haidt: Early-to-mid teens brain rewires from back to front
“But it's especially early puberty, the early teens, the mid-teens, that is the period where your brain is literally rewiring. It is literally from back to front, changing over from the child form to the adult form, which is much more competent, but much less f…”
Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 18:31 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview
Jul 10, 2024
Insight
Haidt: Liberal democracy needs progressives and conservatives like a gas pedal and brake
“So a good liberal democracy is one in which you have some people pushing for change, you've got other people saying, slow down, like, not so fast, like, let's be careful about this... So that's great, like, you have a car with a gas pedal and a brake, like, yo…”
Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 50:05 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview
Jul 10, 2024 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Haidt: Gen Z employees will choose direct feedback over gentle treatment
“And I guarantee you, the great majority are gonna pick option one, because they do want to grow.”
Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 1:08:35 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview
Jul 10, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Haidt: Progressive revolutions have an almost perfect record of disaster
“Progressive revolutions have an almost perfect record of disaster. I mean, it always descends into, Chaos and economic chaos and cruelty.”
Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 50:29 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview
Jul 10, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Haidt: Businesses began rolling back progressive initiatives by 2022
“Businesses have to actually make money, and so by 20, 22, a lot of businesses were rolling it back. They're saying, whoa, this stuff is terrible. This is not making life better for members of minorities. This is actually just turning everyone against everyone.…”
Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 46:13 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview
Jul 10, 2024 negative
Insight
Haidt: Never send children to summer camps that permit smartphones
“And never send your child to a camp that allows kids to keep phones on them.”
Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 1:02:32 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview
Jul 10, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Haidt: Tolerating campus intimidation caused massive brand destruction of elite higher ed
“So that was the precedent that was set, and that, I believe, was the beginning of one of the greatest brand destructions in American history. Higher ed used to have one of the greatest brands in the world. Elite higher ed was the envy of the world. Now it's a …”
Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 35:34 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview
Jul 10, 2024 positive
Opinion
Haidt: Immigrants from non-English speaking countries have better work ethic
“Immigrants who are from non-English speaking countries. That's right. They have a better work ethic.”
Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 1:05:24 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview
Jul 10, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Haidt: Children mostly overcome phone and video game withdrawal within a week
“You take away the video games, you take away the phones, and for, you know, Anna Lemke says it's, you know, two or three weeks to overcome, ah, withdrawal symptoms for, especially for more serious drugs, but in my experience, it's more like, it's like a few da…”
Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 1:02:03 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview
Jul 10, 2024
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Haidt: Personality traits and political leanings are partly heritable
“Almost everything about our personality is partly heritable, and if you have an identical twin separated at birth, you never met, but if you're very much on the left, your twin probably is too. Something about our brains make us predisposed to the right or the…”
Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 48:44 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview
Jun 19, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Friedberg: Beyond basic needs, rate of progress predicts happiness, not absolute income
“Beyond that standard of living, once you're able to get food and housing and all the things you need to survive and thrive, what predicted happiness was how much things changed from year to year.”
David Friedberg Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 11:11 Tony Robbins | All-In Live from Miami
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