The Age of Magical Overthinking
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From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast
Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and
personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the
power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking. Utilizing
the linguistic insights of her â€owitty and brilliantâ€? (Blyth
Roberson, author of America the Beautiful?) first book Wordslut and
the sociological explorations of her breakout hit Cultish, Amanda
Montell now turns her erudite eye to the inner workings of the
human mind and its biases in her most personal and electrifying
work yet. â€oMagical thinkingâ€? can be broadly defined as the
belief that one’s internal thoughts can affect unrelated events
in the external world: Think of the conviction that one can
manifest their way out of poverty, stave off cancer with positive
vibes, thwart the apocalypse by learning to can their own peaches,
or transform an unhealthy relationship to a glorious one with
loyalty alone.In all its forms, magical thinking works in service
of restoring agency amid chaos, but in The Age of Magical
Overthinking, Montell argues that in the modern information age,
our brain’s coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our
irrationality turned up to an eleven. In a series of razor sharp,
deeply funny chapters, Montell delves into a cornucopia of the
cognitive biases that run rampant in our brains, from how the
â€oHalo effectâ€? cultivates worship (and hatred) of larger than
life celebrities, to how the â€oSunk Cost Fallacyâ€? can keep us in
detrimental relationships long after we’ve realized they’re not
serving us. As she illuminates these concepts with her signature
brilliance and wit, Montell’s prevailing message is one of hope,
empathy, and ultimately forgiveness for our anxiety-addled human
selves.If you have all but lost faith in our ability to reason,
Montell aims to make some sense of the senseless. To crack open a
window in our minds, and let a warm breeze in. To help quiet the
cacophony for a while, or even hear a melody in it.
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HarperCollins Publishers ,
Amanda Montell
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Amanda Montell
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