The Coddling Of The American Mind Summary

In their Atlantic article "The Coddling of the American Mind," Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt argue that schools may be training students in thinking styles that will damage their careers and friendships, along with mental health. They build around said argument throughout eight selections listed in the passage, of which they focus intently on trigger warnings and “fortune-telling.”

In today’s society, a student may spend four or more years in a university, a place meant to exemplify diversity and open-mindedness, and then be ridiculed because others cannot understand their way of thinking. Though contradictive, the passage relays several examples in which people simply can’t understand those around them, or misinterpret their actions as microaggressions, and then seem to omit the possibility of resolving situations in any way that doesn’t conform to their own

Cognitive behavioral therapy, a simple training session that illustrates how you can prevent mental filtering, or focused negative thinking. Also, changing the common definition of “harassment” to the legal definition made clear in Davis v Monroe Board of Education. Universities should also discourage trigger warnings, or seeing potential danger in everyday situations. Avoiding things that you fear is a misguided way to fight anxiety and trigger warning don’t help to fight the problem.

In said article, published by the Atlantic, “The Coddling of the American Mind,” Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt successfully prove their argument that schools are training students in thinking styles that will damage their careers and friendships, along with mental health. They fulfil their purpose with the use of specific and intricate vocabulary, storytelling, and by offering solutions to problems addressed in the text. The use of a consistent and clear tone throughout the passage, in my opinion, prevented the possible misinterpretation of their purpose of