How Social Media is Rewiring Our Brain | The CEO Diaries Podcast

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]stressful for our brains. And it's stressful in a brand new way that we really haven't confronted before, making us all more vulnerable to the problem of compulsive overconsumption and addiction.

[00:00:13]And I do think that addiction is the modern plague.

[00:00:16]I think we're going to be struggling with the problem of compulsive overconsumption in a world of abundance for the foreseeable future as in centuries.

[00:00:27]And our survival will depend on figuring out how to live in a world of abundance even though we have brains that evolved for a world of scarcity. At this time of the year, people are thinking a lot about making changes in their life. They want to get in shape, they want to lose a couple of pounds, they want to save their money, they want to knock the addiction, they want to stop the smoking.