90: Jonathan Haidt | The Danger of Good Intentions and Safe Spaces


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Sep 03 2018 82 mins   6

Jonathan Haidt (@JonHaidt) is a social psychologist who studies the American culture wars and is widely considered to be one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of morality. He is the co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure.


What We Discuss with Jonathan Haidt:



  • Why should we be preparing the child for the road and not the road for the child?

  • How the concepts of safe spaces and trigger warnings are making our society less safe and less prepared for the real world.

  • What we should be doing instead to prepare ourselves and our kids for reality.

  • Cognitive distortions and how we become victims of our own flawed mindsets.

  • The three fundamental untruths being perpetuated by academia and the media and how we can fight these influences.

  • And much more...


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