Name: Books You Need To Read
Uploaded: 2020-11-06T03:56:35.000Z
Duration: 10 min 52 s
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Well, you're in luck, because today I'm sharing five books.

So first up we have "The Coddling of the American Mind"

and Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist and a professor.

This book is a specific critique and observation

that are being pumped into college campuses today,

and how it's actually ruining our ability

to critically think and to be able to be resilient.

to not take any risks and to avoid pain and discomfort,

But the thing is, humans are not fragile beings.

When I reflect on anything that I'm proud of in my life,

they were not just, like, walks in the park and being chill.

They required me to be uncomfortable and diligent.

to go out of your comfort zone in order to grow.

So the second lie is "always trust your feelings."

I have different waves of feelings and emotions,

This lie isn't about ignoring your feelings,

because this is where they talk about cognitive distortions.

It's this list which I'll put over the screen,

but these are ways of how our minds/feelings trick us

from believing something that isn't true.

So the third lie is that life is a battle

It's pretty much drawing a line in the sand

and saying, "You're either with me or against me."

It's essentially our tribalism flaring up,

to band together and prepare for conflict.

This mentality completely destroys our ability to empathize

Either way, I found this book incredibly enlightening.

where it really challenged my way of thinking.

Obviously, please read this with a critical mind

and not absorb everything in this book as truth.

so please feel free to check out the Instagram page,

I will leave the details in the description box.

"How to Change Your Mind" by Michael Pollan.

It's all about psychedelics and psilocybin, LSD,

to people suffering from depression, addiction, and anxiety.

Quite frankly, LSD and shrooms have had a bad reputation,

because it was overabused from Timothy Leary

and other radical thought leaders from this time.

and doctors suddenly regarded these two chemical compounds

as miracle drugs, because they were healing their patients.

and goes over the whole history of LSD, psilocybin,

I found that really interesting. (chuckles)

He mentions that there are two most important things

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