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The Three Big Lies Poisoning Young Minds - Jonathan Haidt

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The Effects of Good Intentions and Bad Ideas on the Immune System

The subtitle of our book is how good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure. It's based on the idea of antifragility from Nassim Taleb, that there are many systems that actually need to experience adversity in order to grow strong. If you deprive them of adversity, if you protect them, they don't have a chance to fill out. The rise in suicide and anxiety and depression is so sharp in the US, the UK, Canada and Ireland. And I think there's some trends in Australia, but I'm not certain yet.

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