- wiki.keithl.com/MagicalOverthinking .
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
p033 20% assume COVID manufactured on purpose, 17% believe QAnon Satan worshiping elite claims
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
p047 woo-woo schmuck therapist in Venice CA goat yoga
p048 conspirituality
p049 Baader-Meinhof phenomenon frequency bias
- 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
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- 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
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
- 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 delusion
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- 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
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
- 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
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
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- p223 "please just lie like the husband in the Julia Louis-Dreyfus movie"
which movie? You Hurt My Feelings 2023?