Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2022-12-21
Books mentioned on #644: Jonathan Haidt — The Coddling of the American Mind, How to Become Intellectually Antifragile, and How to Lose Anger by Studying Morality
Brought to you by Wealthfront automated investing, Helix Sleep premium mattresses, and Vuori comfortable and durable performance apparel. Jonathan Haidt (@jonhaidt) is a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
-
The Year of Living Biblically
The Year of Living Biblically by A.
Recommended“when he wrote the book The Year of Living Biblically, which is a fantastic, fantastic book.”
Where to get it
-
The Moral Landscape
The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris argues that science can and should be an authority on human values, determining what is morally good by looking at the well-being of conscious creatures.
Discussed“Sam wrote his book, The Moral Landscape, saying morality is a fact.”
Where to get it
-
Stolen Focus
Stolen Focus by Johann Hari is a compelling exploration of how modern technology, social media, and contemporary distractions systematically degrade human attention spans.
Recommended“Read Johann Hari's book Stolen Focus.”
Where to get it
-
Tribe
Tribe by Sebastian Junger is an exploration of community, psychological resilience, and the human need for belonging, often focusing on the struggles of returning veterans and the nature of post-traumatic stress.
Recommended“The comment on wartime also makes me think about Tribe by Sebastian Junger, which I —”
Where to get it
-
Free-Range Kids
Free-Range Kids by Lenore Skenazy is a provocative parenting guide that advocates for granting children greater autonomy, independent exploration, and unstructured free play to foster resilience and maturity.
Recommended“We live here in New York City, in Greenwich Village, because we're friends with Lenore Skenazy, who wrote this fantastic book, Free-Range Kids.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“It also just helped me — what it did was here at the same time I was reading the Bhagavad Gita and in the Bhagavad Gita, there is a specific scene, I talk about this in The Righteous Mind or The Happiness Hypothesis.”
“It also just helped me — what it did was here at the same time I was reading the Bhagavad Gita and in the Bhagavad Gita, there is a specific scene, I talk about this in The Righteous Mind or The Happiness Hypothesis.”
“Because the other piece we want to bring in here is that in grad school I read Émile Durkheim, the French sociologist and that so, and really comes out in The Righteous Mind like Rick Shweder and Émile Durkheim and Charles Darwin.”
“All of the stuff that started on campus in 2015, Greg and I wrote about it in The Coddling of the American Mind.”