![]() ![]() It contradicts modern psychological research on well-being.It contradicts ancient wisdom (ideas found widely in the wisdom literature of many cultures).Note: To be classified as a Great Untruth, an idea must meet the following three criteria: The Untruth of Us Versus Them: Life is a battle between good people and evil people.The Untruth of Emotional Reasoning: Always trust your feelings.The Untruth of Fragility: What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker. ![]() However, they ended up telling a story of our strange and unsettling times when many institutions are malfunctioning, trust is declining, and a new generation- the one after the Millennials- is graduating and entering the workforce.Īlthough Lukianoff & Haidt focus on the concerns they are seeing on college campuses, I believe their insights extrapolate to us all. ![]() (Excerpts and thoughts on The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt) In 2014, Lukianiff & Haidt set out to understand what was happening on college campuses. ![]()
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