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

I think part of it is Jonathan Haidt talks about this.

if you haven't yet find our recent episode with john height johnathan height in the show notes have a listen HAIDT if you're doing a search he explains much more in depth the problems caused by people getting fake offended or real offended by everything everywhere that they can and this he talks about where this is going to lead us his book was called the codling of the american mind

This is such an interesting read. This is a really good book about preparing the child for the road and not the road for the child, so to speak.

And I think in 2015 when we started all of this, it wasn't so clear that we had this giant national problem. And now here we are speaking in the early fall of 2018 and it's really clear to almost everybody that something's going terribly wrong.

So I find when I speak about the book now, whether people on the right or the left, they admit like wow, something's going off the wrist. What is happening to us?

And so that's why I'm so excited about this book and that's why it was so much fun to write is that this isn't really just about college campus. This is about how have we been changing our culture? How have we been changing the way we raise our kids? How has our national politics been changing so that we get this swirling mess on on many campuses and it's beginning to come into the corporate world, especially in tech and media.

The coddling of the American minus the title we didn't make it up it was made up by a really brilliant editor at the Atlantic don peck uh and it was catchy and we didn't like it and we tried to come up with something else we couldn't and so are we went with and then when we wrote the book we our title was misguided minds because we wanted to focus on the misguiding we didn't want to convey the idea that that kids are coddled um but the publishers hated all the ideas we came up and they were right like this isn't much catchy title so he said all right fine we'll take it as long as we get to pick the subtitle and so the subtitle is how good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure that is exactly what the book is about it's an attempt to figure out what's going wrong and fix it

If you haven't yet find our recent episode with John Height, Jonathan Haidt in the show notes have a listen HAIDT if you're doing a search he explains much more in depth the problems caused by people getting fake offended or real offended by everything everywhere that they can and this he talks about where this is going to lead us his book was called the codling of the American mind and that's exactly what's gonna happen if we have to coddle these two roommates

This is such an interesting read. This is a really good book about preparing the child for the road and not the road for the child, so to speak.

This book was really good by the way. And you already know that because you wrote it.

And if you think I don't have to worry about that just make sure that you're not a parent, not hiring anyone, not working with anybody except for people that look, dress, behave, think, live near, act like you.

The coddling of the American mind is the book how good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure he co-authored that with Greg lukeye on off really interesting read the examples in there will keep you up at night I'm telling you there's all kinds of stuff in there Jason that's like the president of a university was trying to help a student who felt like she didn't fit the mold and the president said don't worry if you don't fit the mold we're working on that then the student gets offended that the president said she didn't fit the mold even though she was just repeating what the student said dot dot dot angry mobs dot dot dot president resigns and you're just thinking oh my gosh this is why we can't have nice things ridiculous yeah

look if the people just read the coddling of the American mind available at a store near you I mean I think you know once we let it was the same with the happiness I bought this once you lay out the arguments people get people understand why these truths are true

If you haven't yet find our recent episode with John Height, Johnathan Haidt in the show notes, have a listen.

He explains much more in depth the problems caused by people getting fake offended or real offended by everything everywhere that they can.

And that's exactly what's gonna happen if we have to coddle these two roommates.

And I said, you know, parents don't, you know, don't freak out about this, you know, but because we really didn't know it's just correlational, mostly correlational then.

Jonathan Haidt in here and he brought that book, The Coddling of the American Mind. He said there's these three great untruths that we tell young people.

I had Jonathan Haidt in here and he brought that book, The Coddling of the American Mind. He said there's these three great untruths that we tell young people.

The first is what doesn't kill you makes you weaker. So that basically like bad things happen, you break you. Which obviously isn't true. And the definition of stoicism is like, no, adversity makes you better if you let it. And then number two is like always trust your feelings.

And then the last one is like, the world is divided into good people and bad people. And it's actually much more complicated than that.

Jonathan Haidt in here and he brought that book, The Coddling of the American Mind. He said there's these three great untruths that we tell young people.

The first is what doesn't kill you makes you weaker so that basically like bad things happen to you break you.

And then number two is like always trust your feelings, you know, like if you feel it, it's right.

And the last one is like the world is divided into good people and bad people. And it's actually much more complicated than that.