The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell

Broadly, magical thinking describes the belief that one’s internal thoughts can affect external events. Mythologizing the world as an attempt to “make sense” of it is a unique and curious human habit.

If you have ever felt like the world is filled with people who are actively deluding themselves into believing whatever they want … this latest book from Wordslut author and linguist Amanda Montell offers some insight on why that seems to happen so often today and what any of us might do to unde...