The Coddling of the American Mind.
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timeletsThis is another good book from {Greg Lukianoff &] Jonathan Haidt.
On the business side, I agree with Adler's conclusion:
Some useful concepts, besides the main theme of the book:
- Fundamental Untruths (Introduction)
- CBT methods (Appendix 1)
“Americans are now motivated to leave their couches to take part in political action not by love for their party’s candidate but by hatred of the other party’s candidate.
[They] bear such animosity toward one another that it’s almost as if many are holding up signs saying, “Please tell me something horrible about the other side, I’ll believe anything!”
On the business side, I agree with Adler's conclusion:
“Eric Adler, a classics professor at the University of Maryland, distilled the argument in a 2018 Washington Post article. “The fundamental cause [of campus intolerance],” he suggests, “isn’t students’ extreme leftism or any other political ideology” but “a market-driven decision by universities, made decades ago, to treat students as consumers—who pay up to $60,000 per year for courses, excellent cuisine, comfortable accommodations and a lively campus life.”
Some useful concepts, besides the main theme of the book:
- Fundamental Untruths (Introduction)
- CBT methods (Appendix 1)
