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:00:00:00 - The Kind Are Muffled, The Cruel Get A Megaphone00:05:31 - The Room In Monaco00:08:52 - AI Is Like Fire00:18:35 - The School With No Lessons00:28:12 - Am I Preparing My Kids Wrong?00:32:03 - The Hewlett Packard Experiment00:40:11 - Flair, Football And Changing The Game00:45:11 - Negativity Bias On Steroids00:49:15 - Dance To The Algorithm Long Enough00:55:03 - We're Building A Worse World For Our Kids01:02:30 - Lead Made Us Dumber01:11:17 - Half Of Britain Used To Smoke01:18:30 - It Would Have Sounded Like Science Fiction01:29:03 - We Built A Fort01:38:45 - Oasis 1995 vs Elton John 201901:44:28 - I Know Exactly How To Get To 5 Million01:56:59 - Let's Not Murder Each Other02:07:14 - The Thing I Suppressed02:15:39 - Almost Every Rich Person I've Met Is Miserable02:25:16 - It's A Wonderful Life- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/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/johannhari101SPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› 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: