Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2024-04-04
Books mentioned on How Modern Life Is Making Us Less Happy - Jonathan Haidt
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Friends
Friends by Robin Dunbar is a non-fiction book investigating the evolutionary mechanics of human relationships and social networks.
Discussed“I've got I I need to bring this up so in in a robin dunbar's book friends which came out maybe 18 months ago he's got this phenomenal study”
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The Happiness Hypothesis
The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt is an exploration of ancient wisdom through the lens of modern psychological science, examining how humans find meaning and well-being.
Discussed“and if you can remember it to talk about the happiness hypothesis because it it was one of the three books that got me into the world of EP and and and and really sort of made me fall in love with it”
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book The Anxious Generation
“what I decided to do in writing this book and writing the anxious generation was I'm not even going to talk about the phones and social media until I've taken readers through what is childhood”
Own book The Coddling of the American Mind
“but Greg and I did write about this in the coddling of the American mind that um there is a long-term transition over Generations as when life is hard and families are big”
Own book The Coddling of the American Mind
“um you know even listeners who might have read the cing the American mind or might know about the importance of play there's really interesting research”