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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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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Haidt and Lukianoff argued that overprotective parenting and campus culture have contributed to anxiety and mentalhealth problems.

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We wrote The Coddling of the American Mind and that led me to draw much more on Leonore Skenazy's work.

— Episode: Jonathan Haidt Returns (on the Anxious G...

Episode: Jonathan Haidt Returns (on the Anxious Generation)

Haidt and Lukianoff argued that overprotective parenting and campus culture have contributed to anxiety and mentalhealth problems.

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We wrote The Coddling of the American Mind and that led me to draw much more on Leonore Skenazy's work.

Coddling means overprotection, and that led me to draw much more on Leonore Skenazy's work.

The book is huge. I mean, it's on every list I see. It was on Bill's list. That's why the book is doing so well everywhere.

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