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The Coddling of the American Mind How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

Greg Lukianoff

New York Times Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising—on campus as well as nationally....

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10% Happier with Dan Harris

The opening chapter of this book introduced the concept of anti-fragility, which the speaker related to the need for children and immune systems to face adversity to grow stronger.

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The key idea there is anti-fragility.

— Episode: Jonathan Haidt on: The Upside of Strivin...

Episode: Jonathan Haidt on: The Upside of Striving, How to...

The opening chapter of this book introduced the concept of anti-fragility, which the speaker related to the need for children and immune systems to face adversity to grow stronger.

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The key idea there is anti-fragility.

And I believe it's because we vastly overprotected them to pride them of normal adversity while at the same time, putting them on social media or giving them phones that they then beginning around 2012, they all got on social media and boom within a year, the girls, the rate of depression is up 50% within a year or well, two years, 2012 to 2014, 2015.

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