The Coddling of the American Mind and How to Become Intellectually Antifragile — Jonathan Haidt

Brought to you by Wealthfront automated investing https://wealthfront.com/tim and Helix Sleep premium mattresses https://helixsleep.com/tim Resources from this episode: https://tim.blog/2022/12/21/jonathan-haidt/ Jonathan Haidt (@JonHaidt) is a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Jonathan received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. His research examines the intuitive foundations of morality and how morality varies across cultural and political divisions. He is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis and the New York Times bestsellers The Righteous Mind and The Coddling of the American Mind (with Greg Lukianoff). He has given four TED Talks, and in 2019 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since 2018 Jonathan has been studying the contributions of social media to the decline of teen mental health and the rise of political dysfunction. He is currently writing two books: Kids in Space: Why Teen Mental Health Is Collapsing and Life after Babel: Adapting to a World We Can No Longer Share. Please enjoy! 00:00 Start 01:33 Richard Shweder. 03:44 Making sense of assertions in anthropology. 09:03 Why I invited Jon on the show. 10:17 Moral relativism. 17:04 How an emergentist views human rights violations. 19:42 A turning point: why Jon almost never gets angry anymore. 22:37 Taking LSD for the first time. 27:40 My own transformative experience was happening simultaneously. 30:59 Were my politics influenced or altered by this experience? 35:43 What being a Jewish atheist means to Jon. 41:02 From feud to friendship with Sam Harris. 46:01 He's a very, very smart cookieComplex dynamical system. 50:42 How safe spaces and character cancellation took over colleges. 57:32 Why did the University of Chicago initially resist this trend? 1:00:24 What makes businesses more resilient against this trend than colleges? 1:04:16 The University of Austin: a catalyst for academic reform? 1:08:31 The aim of Jon’s Heterodox Academy. 1:13:07 Distilling John Stuart Mill — the patron saint of viewpoint diversity. 1:15:02 Aging out of anger and the disarming power of Daryl Davis. 1:18:21 How to get smarter, stronger, and more sociable. 1:20:52 After Babbel. 1:22:53 What the holy and hitched can impart about happiness for the secular and single. 1:27:29 What’s happening to Gen Z? 1:31:02 Jon and his wife’s free-range parenting style for fostering independence. 1:36:33 Group sports vs. individualist sports. 1:39:53 A tough coach or teacher tests limits and taps potential. 1:46:06 Developing intellectual antifragility. 1:49:11 Jon’s billboard. 1:51:52 Revisiting practical philosophies when times get tough. 1:57:35 Parting thoughts. About Tim Ferriss: Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 800 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running. Connect with Tim Ferriss: Sign up for "5-Bullet Friday" (Tim's free weekly email newsletter): https://go.tim.blog/5-bullet-friday-yt/ Visit the Tim Ferriss PODCAST: https://tim.blog/podcast/ Visit the Tim Ferriss BLOG: https://tim.blog/ Follow Tim Ferriss on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/tferriss/ Follow Tim Ferriss on INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/timferriss/ Like Tim Ferriss on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TimFerriss/

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Released: December 22, 2022
Duration: 2h 0m
Channel: Tim Ferriss
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Brought to you by Wealthfront automated investing https://wealthfront.com/tim and Helix Sleep premium mattresses https://helixsleep.com/tim Resources from this episode: https://tim.blog/2022/12/21/jonathan-haidt/ Jonathan Haidt (@JonHaidt) is a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Jonathan received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. His research examines the intuitive foundations of morality and how morality varies across cultural and political divisions. He is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis and the New York Times bestsellers The Righteous Mind and The Coddling of the American Mind (with Greg Lukianoff). He has given four TED Talks, and in 2019 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since 2018 Jonathan has been studying the contributions of social media to the decline of teen mental health and the rise of political dysfunction. He is currently writing two books: Kids in Space: Why Teen Mental Health Is Collapsing and Life after Babel: Adapting to a World We Can No Longer Share. Please enjoy! 00:00 Start 01:33 Richard Shweder. 03:44 Making sense of assertions in anthropology. 09:03 Why I invited Jon on the show. 10:17 Moral relativism. 17:04 How an emergentist views human rights violations. 19:42 A turning point: why Jon almost never gets angry anymore. 22:37 Taking LSD for the first time. 27:40 My own transformative experience was happening simultaneously. 30:59 Were my politics influenced or altered by this experience? 35:43 What being a Jewish atheist means to Jon. 41:02 From feud to friendship with Sam Harris. 46:01 He's a very, very smart cookieComplex dynamical system. 50:42 How safe spaces and character cancellation took over colleges. 57:32 Why did the University of Chicago initially resist this trend? 1:00:24 What makes businesses more resilient against this trend than colleges? 1:04:16 The University of Austin: a catalyst for academic reform? 1:08:31 The aim of Jon’s Heterodox Academy. 1:13:07 Distilling John Stuart Mill — the patron saint of viewpoint diversity. 1:15:02 Aging out of anger and the disarming power of Daryl Davis. 1:18:21 How to get smarter, stronger, and more sociable. 1:20:52 After Babbel. 1:22:53 What the holy and hitched can impart about happiness for the secular and single. 1:27:29 What’s happening to Gen Z? 1:31:02 Jon and his wife’s free-range parenting style for fostering independence. 1:36:33 Group sports vs. individualist sports. 1:39:53 A tough coach or teacher tests limits and taps potential. 1:46:06 Developing intellectual antifragility. 1:49:11 Jon’s billboard. 1:51:52 Revisiting practical philosophies when times get tough. 1:57:35 Parting thoughts. About Tim Ferriss: Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 800 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running. Connect with Tim Ferriss: Sign up for "5-Bullet Friday" (Tim's free weekly email newsletter): https://go.tim.blog/5-bullet-friday-yt/ Visit the Tim Ferriss PODCAST: https://tim.blog/podcast/ Visit the Tim Ferriss BLOG: https://tim.blog/ Follow Tim Ferriss on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/tferriss/ Follow Tim Ferriss on INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/timferriss/ Like Tim Ferriss on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TimFerriss/

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Tim Ferriss
host
Entrepreneur and author who hosts The Tim Ferriss Show.
Jonathan Haidt
guest
Social psychologist and NYU professor known for moral psychology and authoring The Coddling of the American Mind.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Tim Ferriss, featuring Tim Ferriss and Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind and How to Become Intellectually Antifragile — Jonathan Haidt explores jonathan Haidt on moral pluralism, campus fragility, and post-Babel discourse Jonathan Haidt describes how mentor Richard Shweder shaped his approach to morality by training him to test claims by asserting or denying them to see what still makes sense.

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