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What does it take to get teens to reduce their screen time? And is that the first step to flourishing?

Mike Goldstein is the founder of the Center for Teen Flourishing, which he describes as an R&D lab for the hours between 3 PM and 3 AM. By his estimate, about 40% of teens are languishing. They’re not in acute crisis, but they sure aren’t flourishing.

And so he’d to see like more minds working on a practical problem — how do you help a young person get unstuck?

We discuss:

* Whether a busy teen is a flourishing teen, and whether screen time is less important in itself than what it crowds…

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