Jonathan Haidt has been on Joe Rogan, featured in articles in the New Yorker and has seen his book The Anxious Generation sky rocket to #1 on the NY Times best selling list. Jonathan outlines a few solutions to the struggles of this generation which to my mind are only band-aid solutions.

Preventing kids from accessing social media and smart phones until a reasonable age feels appropriate – but where is the incentive for the overworked, burnt out and constantly distracted parent to implement these restrictions? The excuse from these parents is understandable – if they don’t see behavioural issues with their children, then why implement these boundaries? Instead, social reform with social media and smart phones should start with broad education to parents and kids. We must look beyond these short-term fixes and teach people, both kids and parents, how to build better relationships with technology – not just pretend it doesn’t exist until they are “old enough”.

Whenever we use our device, there is always something we need to attend to. A notification we need to check, a product we need to order, or boredom that needs to be relieved. It feels as if sometimes our phones are a means to an ends. But what end exactly? Is it simply the end when we reach the end of the road as well? Or will we get to choose when we've had enough of our phones, emails and social media and get to put our phones down for the last time on our terms?

30 years ago it wasn't standard practice for people to go to the gym or eat healthy. You could eat cereal for breakfast and that was a 'good start to the day'. Now, gyms are everywhere and the ability to access information about eating right and exercising is easy than ever.

In this weeks podcast, I give you my reasons why I think Digital Wellbeing is just like dieting and fitness was 30-years ago.