Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2024-04-22
Ryan Holiday & Jonathan Haidt: books mentioned on The Daily Stoic
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Jonathan Haidt recommended The Stoic Challenge by William B. Irvine, and discussed The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and others, Meditations by Aurelius Marcus, Deep Work by Cal Newport, and The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Coddling of the American Mind
The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt investigates how modern safetyism, declining childhood resilience, and the rapid rise of social media are negatively impacting the mental health and emotional development of younger generations.
Discussed“I started rereading Stoicism at the same time as I was working on the book The Coddling of the American Mind.”
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Meditations
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is a profound collection of personal reflections and Stoic philosophy written by the Roman emperor.
Discussed“like when you read meditations you're like this it's not good for a person to be in this position”
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The Stoic Challenge
The Stoic Challenge by William B.
Recommended“uh especially the wonderful book The stoic challenge by Will murvin everyone loves that book”
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Deep Work
Deep Work by Cal Newport is a practical guide on cultivating focused success and eliminating distractions in an increasingly noisy world.
Discussed“um but we read in my in my flourishing class at NYU we we read his book deep work yeah amazing book”
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The Righteous Mind
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt is an insightful exploration of moral psychology that investigates why good people are divided by politics and religion.
Discussed“But what's happened is, as I say in 'The Righteous Mind', we evolved for small-scale societies that are deeply religious, that circle around sacred objects to make us stronger, especially in battles against other groups.”
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Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and at the same time I was working on this book The Calling the American mind and so like half my mind was like you know the world's going to blow up we're going to have war with North Korea and you know Donald Trump is going to be unstable and and my wife is going to Korea with my”
“At the same time, I was writing The Coddling of the American Mind, which was all about what was happening to Gen Z and young people.”
“the fourth norm is um far more Independence free play and responsibility in the real world because this is the other half of the story in the you know in the anxious generation a lot of it is about the the great rewiring of childhood into the phone based childhood”
“but what we lost is the play based childhood what we lost is a childhood in which you go out and you experience challenges and setbacks without supervision”