SUMMARY: The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure ... SUMMARY - Key points in less than 1 hour)

by Kirsten Elsar

You can find the original About this summary This summary presents the most important ideas, issues, and solutions presented in the original book in a simplified manner. It is meant to shed light on the message of the original by making it shorter.
It will educate you on how to improve matters for your children and adolescents and help them develop into resilient and properly functioning adults. It will also help you identify problematic trends on college campuses.
This book is for everyone including parents, teachers, caregivers, professors, administrators, college students, and anyone else concerned about the alarming statistics of rising depression and anxiety among American adolescents.
About the original book and the author The Coddling of the American Mind covers three Great Untruths. These include "The Untruth of What doesn't kill you makes you weaker", "The Untruth of Emotional Always trust your feelings" and "The Untruth of Us Versus Life is a battle between good people and evil people." The authors show how these Untruths and the policies and political movements stemming from these are creating issues for universities, young people and liberal democracies. The authors of the book are Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.

68 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 11, 2018

Reviews

[Silvina Stinco]

Too short

Too short to understand the idea of the book. I would prefer more examples, and a conclusion more detailed. 👍🏻

[Christiane]

Very informative and eye opening.

[Judson Hart]

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[Lauren]

First time I've read just a summary... for something like this it was perfect. I think I'd like the whole thing but was grateful to have the ideas condensed this way.