The Coddling of the American Mind

Posted on 03 April 2018 by Greg Lukianoff

A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, education, and our 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. Free Download The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This is a very narrow and small minded book parading as a big thoughtful one It says it is about the American Mind, but the data and the theory only support the coddling of a very narrow subset of the American mind upper middle class college kids born after 1995 that got to college in 2013 As far as that group is concerned, this is really good advice I totally agree with his three untruths your feelings are not necessarily true, the world is not good and evil, and adversity does not make This is a very narrow and small minded book parading as a big thoughtful one It says it is about the American Mind, but the data and the theory only support the coddling of a very narrow subset of the American mind upper middle class college kids born after 1995 that got to college in 2013 As far as that group is concerned, this is really good advice I totally agree with his three untruths ...I was lucky enough to read an advance copy of this book, and will be recommending it to at least half the people I know Its insights into the various developments over the past couple generations parenting, social media, identity politics weave a fascinating if often dispiriting and comprehensive picture of how we got to the current...There can be little doubt that students entering our colleges and universities for the past several years are traveling to the beat of a different drum For the most part, many of these young men and women are developmentally challenged in several ways Their stunted growth is the result of their parent s upbringing the students have been coddled by their parents, trained to fear anyone outside of their immediate circles, prohibited from engaging in creative thinking, stopped from normal play a There can be little doubt that students entering our colleges and universities for the past several years are traveling to the beat of a different drum For the most part, many of these young men and women are developmentally challenged in several ways Their stunted growth is the result of their parent s upbringing the students have been coddled by their parents, trained to fear anyone outside of their immediate circles, prohibited from engaging in creative thinking, stopped from normal play activities, subjected to increased study activities following a typical school day even at the kindergarten level , denied opportunities to explore their neighborhoods without adult supervision lest they are kidnapped , and the list goes on The authors explore the negative impact of obsessive screen ti...Imagine that you want to start a fitness program to increase your strength and endurance and sign up at the local gym Upon arrival, you notice that management has removed all of the weights, concerned that heavy weights can cause stress and injury Instead, you are instructed to perform light body weight exercises that you can already safely handle As you go through the motions of exercise, progress is nonexistent and you ll be entirely unprepared for any activities that might require greater Imagine that you want to start a fitness program to increase your strength and endurance and sign up at the local gym Upon arrival, you notice that management has removed all of the weights, concerned that heavy weights can cause stress an...Hallelujah and Amen A definite TBR for parents of kids tween 2 and 22 the iGen.The central tenants of this book are good but incredibly repetitive and fluffed up Towards the end of the book, I wanted to shoot myself everytime I read the word saftyism The book started out as an article, which explains a lot It should ve stayed an article.Also, the Authors fail to provide compelling evidence in support of their hypothesis that we are facing a generational crisis They largely backup their sweeping generalizations about I Gen with extreme anecdotal cases The section o The central tenants of this book are good but incred...Can t say I learned anything new from this book My kids are Millennials in their early 30 s The authors are directing their exposition to the parents of the generation that followed, what they call iGen internet generation , sometimes referred to as Generation Z I agree that what they call Three Bad Ideas are bad Our approach was the opposite As soon as our kids were old enough, we explained that life was a process of overcoming t...The Coddling of the American Mind, a collaboration between Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, is a solid step above Jonathan Haidt s previous work The Righteous Mind and his first book in collaboration with Lukianoff, who serves as the current president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Coddling addresses the troubling fragility of Generation Z, which the book describes as a result of an irrational cultural phenomenon the authors call safetyism The authors suggest t The Coddling of the American Mind, a collaboration between Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, is a solid step above Jonathan Haidt s previous work The Righteous Mind and his first book in collaboration with Lukianoff, who serves as t...Thank you to Goodreads and the publisher for the free advance copy This was an excellent and informative read If you ve ever wondered and worried about the worrying trend of people being publically shamed and harassed to the point that they ve lost their reputations, careers and sometimes even physical safety just for expressing an unpopular opinion, this book is an absolute must read It s actually bipartisan and takes a long scathing look at worrying trends from the left as well as the right Thank you to Goodreads and the publisher for the free advance copy This was an excellent and informative read If you ve ever wondered and worried about the worrying trend of people being publically shamed and harassed to the point that they ve lost their reputations, careers and sometimes even physical safety just for expressing an unpopular opinion, this book is an absolute must read It s actually bipartisan and takes a long scathing look at worryi...In spite of an incredibly Pollyana ish ending, Coddling of the American Mind is an otherwise superbly well written and well researched book about one of the most pressing issues of contemporary American politics Political Correctness Standing comfortably aside modern intellectual heavyweights such as Jordan Peterson who have critiqued our cultural milieu, I was not the least bit surprised with the message within However, I was particularly surprised to discover that A the authors are neither In spite of an incredibly Pollyana ish ending, Coddling of the American Mind is an otherwise superbly well written and well researched book about one of the most pressing issues of contemporary American politics Political Correctness Standing comfortably aside moder...

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03 April 2018

Greg Lukianoff