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The Age of Magical Overthinking

Notes on Modern Irrationality

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The Age of Magical Overthinking

Von: Amanda Montell
Gesprochen von: Amanda Montell
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A BookPage Best Nonfiction Book of 2024

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking.

Utilizing the linguistic insights of her “witty and brilliant” (Blyth Roberson, author of America the Beautiful?) first book Wordslut and the sociological explorations of her breakout hit Cultish, Amanda Montell now turns her erudite eye to the inner workings of the human mind and its biases in her most personal and electrifying work yet.

“Magical thinking” can be broadly defined as the belief that one’s internal thoughts can affect unrelated events in the external world: think of the conviction that one can manifest their way out of poverty, stave off cancer with positive vibes, thwart the apocalypse by learning to can their own peaches, or transform an unhealthy relationship to a glorious one with loyalty alone. In all its forms, magical thinking works in service of restoring agency amid chaos, but in The Age of Magical Overthinking, Montell argues that in the modern information age, our brain’s coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our irrationality turned up to an eleven.

In a series of razor sharp, deeply funny chapters, Montell delves into a cornucopia of the cognitive biases that run rampant in our brains, from how the “halo effect” cultivates worship (and hatred) of larger-than-life celebrities, to how the “sunk cost fallacy” can keep us in detrimental relationships long after we’ve realized they’re not serving us. As she illuminates these concepts with her signature brilliance and wit, Montell’s prevailing message is one of hope, empathy, and ultimately forgiveness for our anxiety-addled human selves. If you have all but lost faith in our ability to reason, Montell aims to make some sense of the senseless. To crack open a window in our minds, and let a warm breeze in. To help quiet the cacophony for a while, or even hear a melody in it.
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"An author and podcaster who studies cult loyalty and other cognitive malfunctions explains how emotions and attachments can distort how we see our power to manage ourselves and the world. Performing this combination of behavioral economics, psychology, and chatty advice for contemporary times, Montell exhibits perky energy and streetwise charm but never trivializes the wisdom of her observations and suggestions. Her writing and vocal character also communicate empathy and hope to those who feel despair about how little control they feel they have over their daily lives, work, politics, and relationships. For anyone feeling overloaded by today’s volatile culture, this audiobook is full of timely and sharp-witted advice on how to establish a peaceful, reasonable sense of agency in one’s life."
"An author and podcaster who studies cult loyalty and other cognitive malfunctions explains how emotions and attachments can distort how we see our power to manage ourselves and the world. Performing this combination of behavioral economics, psychology, and chatty advice for contemporary times, Montell exhibits perky energy and streetwise charm but never trivializes the wisdom of her observations and suggestions. Her writing and vocal character also communicate empathy and hope to those who feel despair about how little control they feel they have over their daily lives, work, politics, and relationships. For anyone feeling overloaded by today’s volatile culture, this audiobook is full of timely and sharp-witted advice on how to establish a peaceful, reasonable sense of agency in one’s life."
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