Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2024-03-19
Books mentioned on #2121 - Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist, professor, and author. His latest book, "The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness," will be available March 26.
Jonathan Haidt recommended Free-Range Kids by Lenore Skenazy, and discussed The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, The Canceling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and others, and The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt's influential cultural study "The Anxious Generation" examines how modern technology and social media impact youth mental health and drive a loneliness crisis.
Discussed“and a review of of the book of the anxious generation in the times of London in the the UK times”
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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“I'm a big fan of Lenore Skenazy, the woman who wrote 'Free-Range Kids.' She and I co-founded an organization called Let Grow; parents, please go to letgrow.org for all kinds of ideas on how to help your kid have more independence, which makes them more mature and less fragile.”
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The Canceling of the American Mind
The Canceling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott examines how contemporary call-out culture undermines trust, threatens public discourse, and offers practical solutions to restore open communication.
Discussed“that's what Greg lukanov and Ricky schlot their new book The cancelling of the American mind is about”
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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, shifting parenting strategies, and the rise of social media are negatively impacting the psychological resilience and emotional well-being of younger generations.
Discussed“I have a quote on this in in the coddling the American mind where he talks about you know the the move to protect students from um from bad feelings”
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“That's why you wrote this, 'The Anxious Generation', and it could not be more true how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness.”
“and uh that's why you wrote this the anxious generation and uh it could not be more true”
“but part of the message of the book is that social media and the things kids are doing on screens are not really like TV”
“my book The coddling of the American mind had just come out and back then people were beginning to sense”
“um so as part of the book uh I'm trying to launch a movement called free the aness generation”
“so you know my argument in the book is that we had a complete rewiring of childhood between 2010 and 2015”
“I I don't even have much on it in the book um watching”
“what I'm trying to do with the book is to show them here are four Norms that are pretty easy to do”
“and I hope I hope my book The anxious generation will sort of promote a a pause”
“that's what Greg lukanov and Ricky schlot their new book The cancelling of the American mind is about”
“so I think we hit a low Point um in the fall in such a way that I'm actually optimistic that things are going to change because I've been concerned about these issues in universities the culture issues since 2014 2015 when Greg lukanov and I wrote Our First Atlantic article titled the coddling the American mind”
“and some of the content from my book The Righteous Mind and it's it's now it evolved”
“it's now it's 6 30 minute modules that teach you about moral psychology why are we divided what do liberals believe what do conservatives believe why do conversations go wrong”
“What we did is we took some insights from moral psychology and some of the content from my book, The Righteous Mind.”
“that's my goal in writing the book and writing the anxious generation and uh I have this amazing collabor”