We Built A World Humans Aren't Designed For | Johann Hari

Johann Hari is an internationally bestselling author and journalist whose work - including Stolen Focus, Lost Connections, and Chasing the Scream - delves into the structural and societal drivers behind attention collapse, depression, anxiety, and addiction. Moving beyond individual blame, he explores how digital architecture, surveillance capitalism and the erosion of human connection are actively reshaping modern minds. Johann and I discuss why material progress has failed to deliver psychological fulfilment, how our 19th-century factory-model education system deadens curiosity in children, and why depriving youth of unsupervised, risky play has fuelled a global spike in anxiety. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - The Kind Are Muffled, The Cruel Get A Megaphone 05:31 - The Room In Monaco 08:52 - AI Is Like Fire 18:35 - The School With No Lessons 28:12 - Am I Preparing My Kids Wrong? 32:03 - The Hewlett Packard Experiment 40:11 - Flair, Football And Changing The Game 45:11 - Negativity Bias On Steroids 49:15 - Dance To The Algorithm Long Enough 55:03 - We're Building A Worse World For Our Kids 1:02:30 - Lead Made Us Dumber 1:11:17 - Half Of Britain Used To Smoke 1:18:30 - It Would Have Sounded Like Science Fiction 1:29:03 - We Built A Fort 1:38:45 - Oasis 1995 vs Elton John 2019 1:44:28 - I Know Exactly How To Get To 5 Million 1:56:59 - Let's Not Murder Each Other 2:07:14 - The Thing I Suppressed 2:15:39 - Almost Every Rich Person I've Met Is Miserable 2:25:16 - It's A Wonderful Life - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACT PETE › Website – http://petermccormack.com › Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact › Email – me@petermccormack.com › Instagram –   / mccormack555   › X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/ CONNECT WITH JOHANN HARI › Website – https://johannhari.com/ › Stolen Focus – https://stolenfocusbook.com/ › X/Twitter – https://x.com/johannhari101 SPONSORS › IREN – https://www.iren.com/ › Venice – https://venice.ai/ › Ledn – https://www.ledn.io/peter › Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE › Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K › Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu › Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM › YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM › Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePM FILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR › https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/ › https://x.com/curttayloruk/ EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK › https://x.com/ConorM04 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - #JohannHari #StolenFocus #AttentionEconomy #MentalHealth #SurveillanceCapitalism