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Laura Noggle's Reviews > The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
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Found this one to be a chore for the majority, mass generalizations based on a very limited subset of American middle class/college educated.
There were a lot of interesting points however.
Appreciated the frequent references to one of my favorite authors, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, particularly his book Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder.
“Free speech and the ability to tolerate offense are the hallmarks of a free and open society.”
This book focuses on addressing these three main points:
1. The Untruth of Fragility: What doesn't kill you makes you weaker.
2. The Untruth of Emotional Reasoning: Always trust your feelings.
3. The Untruth of Us Versus Them: Life is a battle between good people and evil people.
There were a lot of interesting points however.
Appreciated the frequent references to one of my favorite authors, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, particularly his book Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder.
“Free speech and the ability to tolerate offense are the hallmarks of a free and open society.”
This book focuses on addressing these three main points:
1. The Untruth of Fragility: What doesn't kill you makes you weaker.
2. The Untruth of Emotional Reasoning: Always trust your feelings.
3. The Untruth of Us Versus Them: Life is a battle between good people and evil people.
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Reading Progress
May 11, 2019
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Started Reading
May 11, 2019
– Shelved
May 19, 2019
– Shelved as:
nonfiction
May 19, 2019
– Shelved as:
2019
May 19, 2019
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Finished Reading
