Mitch Horowitz: The Role of a Rebel in a Digital Age

Talk Notes and Resources by Alex Turvy.

Talk Summary:

Award-winning author, lecturer, and narrator Mitch Horowitz asks: How do we deal with an increasingly coarse and unfriendly online world?

Key Insights:

• People need to make choices that are countercultural to social media norms in order to healthily navigate and address the horrors (both personal and social) that they encounter online

• We deal with negative self-image by looking inward instead of looking for validation from others