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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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Title The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Author Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
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“Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child.” ^ref-55797

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Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it. ^ref-20505

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A culture that allows the concept of “safety” to creep so far that it equates emotional discomfort with physical danger is a culture that encourages people to systematically protect one another from the very experiences embedded in daily life that they need in order to become strong and healthy. ^ref-9396

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Safetyism deprives young people of the experiences that their antifragile minds need, thereby making them more fragile, anxious, and prone to seeing themselves as victims. ^ref-40207

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“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.”5 ^ref-59148

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A faux pas does not make someone an evil person or an aggressor. ^ref-15681

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There is a principle in philosophy and rhetoric called the principle of charity, which says that one should interpret other people’s statements in their best, most reasonable form, not in the worst or most offensive way possible. ^ref-33304

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Life in a call-out culture requires constant vigilance, fear, and self-censorship. ^ref-61267

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This concludes Part I of this book. In these three chapters, we presented three really bad ideas and showed how each one meets the three criteria for being called a Great Untruth, which we laid out in the introductory chapter: it contradicts ancient wisdom, it contradicts modern psychological research on flourishing, and it harms the individuals and communities that embrace it. ^ref-61295

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You can choose whether to interpret a visiting speaker as harmful. You can pick your battles, devote your efforts to changing policies that matter to you, and make yourself immune to trolls. ^ref-55984

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Like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other advocates of nonviolent resistance, Mandela noted that violent and dehumanizing tactics are self-defeating, closing off the possibility of peaceful resolution. ^ref-60158

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This concludes Part II of this book. In these two chapters, we examined some dramatic events that occurred on American college campuses in the two years after we published our article in The Atlantic, laying out our concerns about cognitive distortions on campus. ^ref-49094

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Negative partisanship means that American politics is driven less by hope and more by the Untruth of Us Versus Them. ^ref-9055

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The United States has experienced a steady increase in at least one form of polarization since the 1980s: affective (or emotional) polarization, which means that people who identify with either of the two main political parties increasingly hate and fear the other party and the people in it. ^ref-55054

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Both depression and anxiety cause changes in cognition, including a tendency to see the world as more dangerous and hostile than it really is. ^ref-12159

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Paranoid parenting is our third explanatory thread. ^ref-56979

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The decline of unsupervised free play is our fourth explanatory thread. ^ref-38384

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The growth of campus bureaucracy and the expansion of its protective mission is our fifth explanatory thread. ^ref-1614

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This concludes Part III of this book. In these six chapters, we showed how the new culture of safetyism that we described in Part I and the dramatic events that we described in Part II are the result of many intersecting trends and explanatory threads that all came together in recent years. ^ref-65020

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Prepare the Child for the Road, Not the Road for the Child ^ref-30918

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Your Worst Enemy Cannot Harm You as Much as Your Own Thoughts, Unguarded ^ref-43560

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The Line Dividing Good and Evil Cuts Through the Heart of Every Human Being ^ref-53937

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We can summarize the entire book by contrasting the three opening quotations and the three Great Untruths. ^ref-32519