Johann Hari

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realizing that I needed to limit my exposure to the creative, that creative spark and that flow that Johan Harry introduced me to, I realized that I had to also put limits on it.

Wow.

I'm going to pull up another message by Victoria.

What are you going to do? Gonna be in Chattanooga May 20th or what?

The thing I love about Johann Hari is he actually puts himself in situations.

He travels to the favelas of Brazil.

He goes to the streets of Baltimore to find out the message and then he tells us about it.

No, it does.

Johan, I always ask everyone here a couple of questions at the end.

I'm going to ask you, if I could give you a magic phone where you could ring up the 20-year-old Johann Hari and give that young man a bit of advice, what would you tell him?

I would say it would be related to the themes of what we've been talking about.

And that's a great quote.

I think that comes from a chap called Johan Hari.

He's done a few books, and I might get the book wrong, but I think it's his book called Lost Connections, where he talks about what you've kind of just described, Tracy, about the value of having connection.

you know, which obviously is really lost within addiction.

Absolutely, absolutely.

Johan Harry's book Lost Connections starts with talking about the placebo effect and how to use it, you know, effectively basically.

Yes, that's a

great recommendation.

On the surface, it looks like a win-win, but in reality, this change had far worse consequences.

In Johan Hari's best-selling book, Stolen Focus, he documents exactly what went wrong when these platforms rolled out these kinds of feeds.

algorithm is neutral about the question of whether it wants you to be calm or angry that's not its concern it only cares about one thing will you keep scrolling unfortunately there's a quirk of human behavior on average we will stare at something negative and outrageous for a lot longer than we will stare at something positive and calm

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Those responses are not only ineffective, they're actually abusive and are therefore the very antithesis of a Christian response.

We wouldn't give advice like that to someone with a broken leg, so why would we give it to someone with a mental illness? The British researcher and author, Johann Hari, in his book, Lost Connections, which I recommend to anyone, says that the question we need to ask those who struggle is not what's wrong with you, but what happened to you? Not what's wrong with you, but what happened to you? Ask anyone struggling with mental illness and you'll most often hear about severe trauma they've experienced at some point in their lives.

When you think of it like that, compassion is the only adequate response.

So how did Jesus deal with people struggling with what we might describe as mental illness? As is the case today, people with mental illness in Jesus' day were among the most marginalised, oppressed, devalued and stigmatised in society.

So that is a reality we're all experiencing.

Um, what is the response to it? And also, if you look at the, like, the, the different, uh, reactions to it, I've, I'm thinking of the book, uh, Stolen Focus from Johann Hari.

Mm-hmm.

Um, or Nir Eyal, who has a different approach, which basically, uh, is all about indistractable and just you having to come up with a discipline to avoid being distracted, and some other people think it's, you know, the system needs to change.

It's probably one of the first TED Talks to ever go viral.

It's a British journalist named Johan Hari.

He popularized an experiment that had existed for a long time called Rat Park.

You're nodding your head.