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MAGICAL OVERTHINKING: Why Modern Life Is Making Us More Irrational

MAGICAL OVERTHINKING: Why Modern Life Is Making Us More Irrational

FromThe Next Big Idea


MAGICAL OVERTHINKING: Why Modern Life Is Making Us More Irrational

FromThe Next Big Idea

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Length:
56 minutes
Released:
Apr 11, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Raise your hand if you've ever belittled a stranger online, made a decision based on astrology, or, heaven forbid, fallen for a conspiracy theory. No? Well, then, consider yourself lucky. And if your hand is raised, don't feel bad, because it turns out in our Information Age the cognitive biases that kept us alive a few millennia ago now make us susceptible to bouts of extreme irrationality. How this happened, and what we can do about it, is the subject of a brand new book by linguist Amanda Montell called "The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality."
Released:
Apr 11, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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The Next Big Idea is a weekly series of in-depth interviews with the world’s leading thinkers. Join our host, Rufus Griscom — along with our curators, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink — for conversations that might just change the way you see the world. New episodes every Thursday.