The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation For Failure
First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt find the origins of today’s campus conflicts in the “Three Great Untruths” embraced by the current young generation: 1) What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker 2) Always trust your feelings; and 3) Life is a battle between good people and evil people. These Three Great Untruths contradict foundational psychological principles about well-being and ancient wisdom from many cultures. Embracing these untruths interferes with learning and social connection. The authors explore the intersecting trends that have brought these well-intentioned but misguided ideas into our culture, and how they connect to America’s ongoing political polarization and our alienation from one another.
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