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Every book Abigail Shrier recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Abigail Shrier has recommended or discussed 3 books on podcasts, as of February 27, 2024.
- Abigail Shrier has talked about books on 1 podcast, as of February 27, 2024.
- Those books came up in 2 episodes, as of February 27, 2024.
- The 3 books Abigail Shrier has mentioned in the most episodes, as of February 27, 2024: Generations, I am Jazz and The Coddling of the American Mind.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Abigail Shrier aired on February 27, 2024.
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Abigail Shrier is an author and journalist whose appearances on The Joe Rogan Experience focus heavily on modern cultural trends, youth mental health, and the societal pressures facing adolescents, as evidenced by her extensive discussions on the platform. During her interviews, Shrier referenced several influential books addressing these topics. She discussed Jean M. Twenge's Generations to examine empirical statistics concerning adolescent mental health, noting disparities across different family backgrounds and political dynamics. Shrier also brought up Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt's The Coddling of the American Mind, explaining how Haidt's insights on safetyism and social media provided a clarifying framework for understanding the rising anxiety and depression rates among teenage girls. Additionally, she discussed Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings's children's book I am Jazz, highlighting its implementation in school curricula regarding gender identity.
Books recommended by Abigail Shrier
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Generations
Jean M.
Discussed“and that actually we're seeing that in you know Jean twangy came out with this book Generations and one of the things she said in it is that boys even even though teenage girls have the worst mental health in general boys from Liberal families had worse mental health than girls from conservative families in terms of anxiety and depression”
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I am Jazz
I am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings is a children's picture book that tells the true story of a transgender child navigating identity and acceptance.
Discussed“so they're reading books like I am jazz in California to kids and that suggests that you might and it tells kids so you might have a boy's brain in a girl's body”
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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“did you read Jonathan Heights book the coddling of the American mind yeah it was on your show that I really like this light bulb went on”
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Books Abigail Shrier wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Rogan Experience #2109 - Abigail Shrier | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2024-02-27 | 1 |
| #1509 - Abigail Shrier | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2020-07-16 | 2 |
Other mentions (12: passing, ad reads, own books)
“So in in in researching Bad Therapy, I first of all, I started out with a totally different hypothesis. I knew that we were these kids were getting more mental health intervention than any generation prior, the rising generation.”
“So to take one example, you know, I interviewed a woman I've I've known for a long time who runs a major named Evelyn. I call her Evelyn in the book who who runs a major cellular biology lab at one of our nation's premier research institutions.”
“I got a actually an email from a woman who loved my last book and she was a child psychologist from a very trained and very well-trained and very good school. She's in her 60s and she really wanted to be of help with my new book, Bad Therapy.”
“So how has writing these last two books transformed the way that you live your life? It's it's funny they really have especially this one. This one was much more close to home because it's three kids I'm raising.”
“One amazing thing about my last book is that I went to interview—I probably talked to about 1,000 parents because after I wrote the book, I had talked to probably hundreds, and then in the years after the book, so many parents kept reaching out to me.”
“I mean, they took my book off Target; they threw a fit, and Target removed the book.”
“I mean this is the game they play the the risks that I wrote about irreversible damage which came out in 2020”
“all i'm pointing out in the book is that there are there seems to be a sudden rise in these teenage girls who are subject to pure influence in social media influence deciding they're transgender and there are no medical safeguards for these girls”
“if you read the book i interviewed experts of all persuasions but but but more importantly there are literally thousands i believe certainly hundreds of books celebrating immediate medical transition for teenagers there is precisely one book that did an investigation of the risks and benefits and concerns that that that might be had around the medicalization of teenage girls”
“she goes on youtube who did a 12 part series on my book i i never met her i didn't know about her until she did this but she's a d transitioner did a 12-part session on my book in which she said yes this was totally her experience as a teenager”
“thanks so much for having me on irreversible damage the transgender craze seducing our daughters”
“thanks so much for having me on irreversible damage the transgender craze seducing our daughters boy”