June 18, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Now, what the heck's going on with this chat? | |
| Which is worse, parents who hit their kids or parents who give them an iPad as a toddler? | |
| Right. | |
| Okay. | |
| Hit me with a Y if you know people who have screen time issues with kids. | |
| Swipe EYP. | |
| Kids who open up an old-fashioned magazine and try and pinch zoom on the photographs. | |
| Hit me with a Y. If you know of people who have issues with their kids, or maybe with your kids, or as a kid yourself, issues with screen time. | |
| It is the big challenge, right? | |
| It is the big challenge of the modern world. | |
| And I will tell you, I will tell you the answer. | |
| So, the answer is, you have to be more interesting, Then screens. | |
| That is your challenge. | |
| You know, it's like if a girl you like is interested in some guy with a great haircut and nice clothes, well, you better get yourself a good haircut and some nice clothes, right? | |
| It's a challenge, right? | |
| There have been studies done, countless studies done. | |
| If you're a runner and somebody is really pacing you, like they're right at your level and they're going a little faster, you will run faster and harder and better and longer. | |
| Boy, I sound like an ED ad. | |
| But you will outstrip your own personal best if somebody's pacing you in the extreme. | |
| So for parents, yeah, you've got an infinite cavalcade of swipey-dipy entertainment and brain-rot Instagram videos and you name it, right? | |
| So what you have to do is you have to take that as a challenge. | |
| Which is, how can I be more interesting? | |
| Can I tell my kid really funny stories? | |
| Can we go, my daughter and I are very keen on river walks, right? | |
| Where we just, we walk down the river, we try to catch fish, we pick up crayfish, we look under rocks and look for frogs and so on. | |
| So if my daughter is given the choice when she was younger, we still do it now even, but when she was younger, it was like, well, you can spend time on your tablet or we can go for a river walk. | |
| She's like, river walk! | |
| And, you know, tons of other things that you can do. | |
| And so with regards to screens, they're a competition that allows you to become a better parent, right? | |
| I mean, my daughter and I, for I think six years, we did these, we called it role-playing, where we had this whole fantasy imaginary story where she was... | |
| I mean, she had battles. | |
| She ran for office as a mayor. | |
| She befriended monsters and explored dungeons. | |
| And if there was a choice between sitting on her tablet and role-playing, role-playing every time. | |
| Every time. | |
| So that is your challenge, is to be more interesting than a tablet, rather than, well, you can't, right? | |
| You can't look at the tablet. | |
| That's like saying to a potential girlfriend, you can't talk to, Biff Chantley Chest here because, you know, he outstrips me and so you just have to use it to up your game as a whole. | |
| All right. | |
| Where to meet women, being 32, living in a small village, working remotely and hating dancing? | |
| Take me to church. | |
| Yeah, I would say go to church. | |
| You're probably going to meet some pretty decent women that way. | |
| The conversations that nobody will ever know about will be the apparent catalyst. | |
| Take every conversation with consideration. | |
| Yeah, you never know. | |
| You never know really who you're talking to. | |
| It could be somebody with immense rhetorical abilities. | |
| It could be somebody with bottomless vats of jiffy lube charisma. | |
| It could be any number of things that maybe tomorrow they inherit $100 million, something goofy like that, right? | |
| You never know who you're talking to and what kind of power they might have. | |
| Or maybe it's not them, but it's somebody they talk to who ends up breaking through in some. | |
| You don't know. | |
| It is an absolute butterfly effect, which is why you should bend your rational maximum towards the promotion of truth, reason, and virtue every opportunity you get. | |
| I don't think anyone gets to the end of the life, at least I hope I don't, get to the end of the life and say, I wish I'd been less rational. | |
| I wish I'd been less... | |
| All right, let's see here. | |
| Raise my sons based on your peaceful parenting lectures. | |
| Thank you, seven and nine and flourishing. | |
| That is wonderful to hear. | |
| Love it, love it, love it. |
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