Episode · The Jordan Harbinger Show · 2018-09-04
Books mentioned on Jonathan Haidt on Resilience & Mental Toughness | The Jordan Harbinger Show Ep. 90
Jordan Harbinger recommended The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and others. Jonathan Haidt recommended The Rise of Victimhood Culture by Bradley Campbell and others, and discussed The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein and others, Coming apart by Charles A. Murray, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
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, shifting parenting strategies, and the rise of social media are negatively impacting the psychological resilience and emotional well-being of younger generations.
Recommended“this book was really good by the way and you already know that because you wrote it”
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The Bell Curve
The Bell Curve by Richard J.
Discussed“So Charles Murray wrote a book in 1994 I think it was called the bell curve a very controversial book in which he looks at race differences”
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Coming apart
Coming Apart by Charles A.
Discussed“He's just written a book about social class this is the most important thing to understand how America is coming apart by social class his book is called coming apart”
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a classic American novel depicting a young boy's journey down the Mississippi River with an escaped slave, confronting society and morality.
Discussed“and emotional reasoning is one of the things that led to the the trigger warnings and all these feelings of fragility and being unsafe in a class where we have to read Huckleberry Finn or something”
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The Rise of Victimhood Culture
The Rise of Victimhood Culture by Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning is an academic yet accessible sociological study that examines the shifting moral frameworks governing modern grievances, conflicts, and social interactions in Western societies.
Recommended“there's a great book on victimhood culture by Manning and Campbell are the authors”
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Other mentions in this episode (8) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“So my second book the righteous mind the subtitle is why good people are divided by politics and religion”
“so my second book the righteous mind the subtitle is why good people are divided by politics and religion”
“And you know my book the righteous mind and the happiness hypothesis were both based in part on the insight that when we're making decisions we do consult how we feel”
“And you know my book the righteous mind and the happiness hypothesis were both based in part on the insight that when we're making decisions we do consult how we feel”
“and you know my book the righteous mind and the happiness hypothesis we're both based in part on the insight that when we're making decisions we do consult how we feel”
“It's as though people on campus read my book and then decided to do exactly the opposite of ancient wisdom exactly the opposite, so the three things I just told you well that's the I got the book right here so so the happiness hypothesis finding modern truth in ancient wisdom chapter 7 is the uses of adversity”
“That's great on truth number three chapter four of the happiness is the faults of others”
“So the coddling of America matters the title we didn't make it up it was made up by a really brilliant editor at the Atlantic Don Peck”