The Quick Fix Quotes

“the reforms that ask the least of us are often the ones most apt to go viral.”
― Jesse Singal, The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills

“At root, when society accepts a false story, it’s often because that story tells society something it wants to hear, or something that seems to explain what’s going on at the moment.”
― Jesse Singal, The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills

“George Bonanno, a clinical psychologist at Columbia University and leading resilience researcher, told the journalist and American studies scholar Daniel DeFraia for a 2019 article he published in The War Horse, a military-focused journalism outlet. “I’ve been studying resilience for 20 years, and I don’t know of any empirical data that shows how to build resilience in anybody.”53”
― Jesse Singal, The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills