The Age of Magical Overthinking Notes on Modern Irrationality

In her new book, The Age of Magical Overthinking, Amanda Montell writes that our brains are overloaded with a gluttonous stream of constant information that's up against our innate tendencies as humans to believe conspiracy theories and mysticism like believing that we can manifest our way out of just about anything.

I really love this book and I can't wait to get into this conversation because you have this quote at the start of the book by the late famed philosopher, Franz Fanon, which says, each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission and fulfill or betray that mission.

I swear I manifested this.

Introducing the Magical Overthinkers Podcast, a show for thought spirallers exploring the subjects we can't stop overthinking about. I'm your host Amanda Montel, author of the New York Times bestselling book The Age of Magical Overthinking and host of the Sounds Like a Cult podcast.

Introducing the Magical Overthinkers podcast, a show for thought spirallers exploring the subjects we can't stop overthinking about. I'm your host, Amanda Montel, author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Age of Magical Overthinking and host of the Sounds Like a Cult podcast.

Introducing the Magical Overthinkers podcast, a show for thought spirallers, exploring the subjects we can't stop overthinking about. I'm your host, Amanda Montel, author of the New York Times bestselling book, "The Age of Magical Overthinking" and host of the Sounds Like a Cult podcast.

I'm your host, Amanda Montel, author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Age of Magical Overthinking and host of the Sounds Like a Cult podcast.

Are you an overthinker? Then I have a podcast recommendation for you. Introducing the magical overthinkers podcast, a show for thought spirallers, exploring the subjects we can't stop overthinking about. I'm your host, Amanda Montel, author of the New York Times bestselling book, the age of magical overthinking and host of the sounds like a cult podcast.

Introducing the Magical Overthinkers podcast, a show for thought spirallers exploring the subjects we can't stop overthinking about. I'm your host, Amanda Montel, author of the New York Times bestselling book The Age of Magical Overthinking and host of the Sounds Like a Cult podcast.

Introducing the Magical Overthinkers Podcast, a show for thought spirallers exploring the subjects we can't stop overthinking about.

Amanda has written three books. One of them, the Age of Magical Overthinking, is about to come out.

one of them is about to come out it's called the age of magical overthinking

Introducing the Magical Overthinkers Podcast, a show for thought spirallers, exploring the subjects we can't stop overthinking about. I'm your host, Amanda Montel, author of the New York Times bestselling book, 'The Age of Magical Overthinking', and host of the 'Sounds Like a Cult' podcast.