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The Coddling of the American Mind

How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

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The Coddling of the American Mind

Von: Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff
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A timely investigation into the new "safety culture" on campus and the dangers it poses to free speech, mental health, education, and ultimately democracy

The generation now coming of age has been taught three Great Untruths: their feelings are always right; they should avoid pain and discomfort; and they should look for faults in others and not themselves. These three Great Untruths are part of a larger philosophy that sees young people as fragile creatures who must be protected and supervised by adults. But despite the good intentions of the adults who impart them, the Great Untruths are harming kids by teaching them the opposite of ancient wisdom and the opposite of modern psychological findings on grit, growth, and antifragility.

The result is rising rates of depression and anxiety, along with endless stories of college campuses torn apart by moralistic divisions and mutual recriminations.

This is a book about how we got here. First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt take us on a tour of the social trends stretching back to the 1980s that have produced the confusion and conflict on campus today, including the loss of unsupervised play time and the birth of social media, all during a time of rising political polarization.

This is a book about how to fix the mess. The culture of “safety” and its intolerance of opposing viewpoints has left many young people anxious and unprepared for adult life, with devastating consequences for them, for their parents, for the companies that will soon hire them, and for a democracy that is already pushed to the brink of violence over its growing political divisions. Lukianoff and Haidt offer a comprehensive set of reforms that will strengthen young people and institutions, allowing us all to reap the benefits of diversity, including viewpoint diversity.

This is a book for anyone who is confused by what’s happening on college campuses today, or has children, or is concerned about the growing inability of Americans to live and work and cooperate across party lines.

©2018 Greg Lukianoff (P)2018 Penguin Audio Anthropologie Bildung Popularkultur Seelische & Geistige Gesundheit Sozialwissenschaften

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“Our behavior in society is not immune to the power of rational scientific analysis. Through that lens, prepare yourself for a candid look at the softening of America, and what we can do about it.” (Neil deGrasse Tyson, director, Hayden Planetarium, and author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry)
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Thoughtful, nuanced, and sober but compassionate analysis of a boiling social problem. Valuable lessons for society and the individual

Timely, insightful, important

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A book that should be read by teachers, professors, parents, politicians, and everyone else

The probably most important book of these times

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Great book, very analytic and down too earth. Exactly the opposite of the rage and callout culture it criticizes.
Will give you a deeper understanding of whats going on and why.

Very instructive

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Mit etwas linken Bias beschreiben Jonathan Haidt und Greg Lukianhoff die entsprechenden Entwicklungen an den Universitäten. All das findet in abgeschwächter Form nun auch in Deutschland statt.

Lesenswert für Deutsche

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This is basically a discussion of current social trends and the importance of education in general. Solid, well structured ideas. Great examples from history and the current day. Helps to understand what’s going on with the people around us. Highly recommended.

Broader implications than the title might suggest

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I hope they are right when they are optimistic about the years to come. Warning against tribalism, identity politics, us-them thinking, victimization, safeteism, micro-aggressions, calling-out etc., I'm on line with them. Interesting to hear the ideas about I-Generation and the potential harm or influence that social media might have on youth. I also find their argument for underscoring our common humanity instead of diverse identities, is a far better way. I also believe they are right about pointing to our mental system as a system that is anti-fragile - it should not be held safe from all harm and hurt, without adversity it gets weak. What doesn't break you makes you stronger. Finally - I think I'll look up, CBT (Cognitive Behavior Therapy). I do believe that we shouldn't just trust our feelings, yet they can be irritatingly insistent and loud - I would like to be able to think as clearly, critically and rationally about some topics, but sometimes emotions makes me less 'coolly' rational.

The road to Hell can be paved with good intentions

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I got this audiobook after Konstantin Kisin mentioned it in his An Immigrant’s Loveletter To The West.

Haidt & Lukiaoff shed a light on the forces that play behind this worrying trend towards the easily offended crowds, call-out and cancel culture.
It is very interesting and insightful.
As a mother I found their thoughts on modern day childhood an coming of age very true. I was almost relieved to see that I am obviously not the only parent to worry about this.

I very much appreciated that the authors also suggest ideas/actions to get out of this vicious victimising circle, ending the (audio)book on a positive, hopeful and empowering note.

I highly recommend this (audio)book.

On target!

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Strong arguments against safetyism and emotional reasoning. If you think it's a good idea to ban words, shield children from adversity, or blame one's emotional state on others' ideas or opinions, this should be a good antidote. However, I would not take this at face value without accounting for at least one layer of politics. There is a "nobody is responsible" approach underlying this that is more helpful to sell books than to seek truth. The first two "great untruths" of fragility and emotional reasoning are on point, and so are their examples. Most topics strike straight at the core of the problem. However, the third "untruth" of good-versus-evil is ill-defined and magics away plenty of evil without evidence. The sane concept of giving the benefit of the doubt is expanded into the insane idea that good-versus-evil conflict is not real. This expansion serves no explicit purpose in the arguments, but often implicitly allows for bias in favor of the authoritarian left. Without evidence or argument, it assigns good intentions to actions that require extreme mental gymnastics to reach from a moral foundation, such as thinly veiled power games and egregious violations of individual fairness. This bias may be a sales tactic, to not further offend the already easily offended part of the target audience. In any case, the twisting of analysis deserves a warning, especially for a book on rationalism.

Conceptually great, but has some irrational bias.

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