Boys Adrift: Why Boys Today Are Struggling | Leonard Sax | The Bigger Picture Podcast
In today's episode, I spoke with Leonard Sax about his book 'Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men'.
Leonard Sax is an American psychologist and a practicing family physician. He is best known as the author of four books for parents: Boys Adrift, Girls on the Edge, Why Gender Matters, and the Collapse of Parenting.
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Highlights
00:00 Intro
6:52 Factor 1: Schools
23:27 Motivation & Personality
33:52 Factor 2: Video Games
41:40 Roni's World of Warcraft Days
53:07 Factor 3: ADHD Meds
1:06:44 Factor 4: Endocrine Disruptors
1:13:37 Factor 5: Male Role Models
1:21:32 Don't Let Toxic Pop Culture Raise Your Children
1:23:55 Where You Can Find Leonard's Work
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Thank you for this. I often feel guilty about putting limits on video games and I really needed to hear that it’s ok 🙏❤
Thank you, Roni, this is really helpful and adds a lot of clarity to this topic 🙏
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3 ай бұрын
Happy to hear! 🙏🏻
Great discussion!
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3 ай бұрын
Happy you enjoyed it! ♥️
Loved his part about rites of passage. Womanhood has always been biologically enforced into girls. Manhood has always been a title that boys have had to earn. Both nature and nurture matter for boys and girls but it seems like for girls nature matters just a little more and for boys nurture matter a bit more. I forgot where I read the quote but it goes something like: ‘Women are born, Men are made’.
Incentive structures change. One can say that boys are doing worse, and by any standard metric, that's probably true. Young men are doing what is expected of them. That's a strange observation to make if they are failing, but they are failing because they are not expected to succeed. To be clear, nobody wants young men to fail, but the current incentive in modern society is for young women to succeed at all costs.
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3 ай бұрын
I wholeheartedly agree. We've painted success as something 'toxic' in men, and we shouldn't be surprised that so many boys are picking up this message and checking out of any form of productive pursuit.