📚 4 Books mentioned in "How To Not Let Your Past Define You - Scott Barry Kaufman" of Modern Wisdom
Podcast: Modern Wisdom
Episode: How To Not Let Your Past Define You - Scott Barry Kaufman
Published on May 29, 2025
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
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Building Community Among Adults of Different Generations
But there seems to have been a cultural shift among youth where um and Gene Twangi has has done a great analysis of this in her book generations. prior generation.
The guest mentions Jean Twenge's book 'Generations' as an analysis of cultural shifts among youth.
Rise Above
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But if if I gave only that message then there'd be no point in write writing the book rise above um because we also have an agency as you said to compensate to do what we need to not you know what what's it going to do to help you to say oh I have the genes for shortness I'm just going to never talk to women ever again you know what what's what what is what is the use of that what is the benefit of that so no matter what circumstance you're in and no matter what hand God has dealt you um I I think it's it's it's very much in our control to to do what we can with what we have.
The guest, Scott Barry Kaufman, mentions the title of his book while discussing agency and overcoming challenges.
The Body Keeps the Score
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Um this notion that trauma is stored in the body I don't think is scientifically accurate. You know, the body keeps the score is like the number one. It's been on the New York Times bestseller list.
The guest mentions 'The Body Keeps the Score' and its popularity, criticizing its premise that trauma is stored in the body.
The Coddling of the American Mind
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Oh, uh, that's become a thing in the younger generation as as as Jonathan Height and Greg Luciano have talked a lot lot about in coddling of the American mind. Um, a lot of people feel unsafe with ideas with with people that don't agree with them.
The guest mentions Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff's book 'The Coddling of the American Mind' in the context of younger generations feeling unsafe with ideas.