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The Age of Magical Overthinking

Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell 2024 153.42 Garden Home Library

• p022 Splitting

• p024 Chinese Teens who "worshipped" people they really knew (parents, teachers) -> higher self-esteem and educational achievement

• p029 proportionality bias assumes big events have big causes, leads to conspiracy theories

• p032 blame your childhood trauma, then pay $26/mo

• p032 Self misdiagnosis on Tiktok

• p033 20% assume COVID manufactured on purpose, 17% believe QAnon Satan worshiping elite claims

• p034 incels with rattails

• p035 Amanda Knox wrongful conviction in Italy

• p038 girlboss

• p039 DSM

• p040 spiritual bypassing

• p041 Disinformation Dozen vaccine lies

  • n041 p229 12 people behind vaccine hoaxes including RFK Jr.

• p042 Give violence a chance $211K FTC fine for fake "made in USA" tags

• p045 Dr. Oz dangerous arsenic in apple juice

• p047 woo-woo schmuck therapist in Venice CA goat yoga

• p048 conspirituality

• p049 Baader-Meinhof phenomenon frequency bias

• p051 The Myth of Normal Gabor Maté

• p059 Mr. Backpack abusive former boyfriend

• p062 Ryan Doody

• p062 diachronically

• p062 alpha male standards encourage men to keep their feelings in a vault

• p074 Zero-sum bias

• p074 i.e. public resistance to trade and immigration
• p078 antitrade candidates criticized buy economists, adored by most voters
  • n078 p231 WAPO Paywall: Trump’s anti-trade rhetoric rattles the campaign message of Clinton and unions
• p081 beauty comparison purgatory: problematic social media use, depression. low self-esteeem

• p082 gaslight gatekeep girlboss

  • n082 p232 Jacob Tobia tokenizing marginalized individuals

• p083 Freud catharsis invalid, acting bad doesn't cure feeling bad

• p084 ShamWow cloth

• p087 Vivek Murthy 2020 Together bvtn lib

  • n088 p232 Shine Theory: Why Powerful Women Make the Greatest Friends Ann Friedman

• p096 survivorship bias

• p100 Disparities in Access to Health Care among Adults with Physical Disabilities: Analysis of a Representative National Sample for a Ten-Year Period

• p101 bloomberg.com paywall 2022 84% of top billionaires advanced degrees top universities
• p102 millenials have worse student debt
• p104 internet malice 15yo Sophia Gall accused of faking cancer
• p109 L.A. narcissism: there's too much light pollution to see the stars

• p111 recency illusion

• p112 singular "they" used by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen

• p112 contronym words that mean their exact opposite

• p114 spandrel chin

• p115 Jenny Odell 2019 Wash Lib How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

• p122 People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Albert Einstein 1951

• p123 eustress

• p125 Keltner / Awe: The New Science Of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life / Bvtn Lib 152.4 KEL
• p126 eight weeks of mindfulness lessons == Lexipro

• p129 1995 McArthur Wheeler robs bank assuming lemon juice makes him invisible

• p131 The Tindler Swindler

• p132 Dunning-Kruger effect

• p132 we should be humble and cautious about ourselves
• p134 nearly everyone overestimates themselves
• p134 Highest Life Expectancy (Japan? yes) Ancient Greek God of the Sun (Helios? yes)

• p135 The Evolution of Overconfidence victor always behaves overconfidently

  • but aren't both sides overconfident?

• p135 Roger LowensteinWhen Genius Failed

• p136 self-deceptive bluffing

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• p223 "please just lie like the husband in the Julia Louis-Dreyfus movie"

  • which movie? You Hurt My Feelings 2023?