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anyone who wants to understand how the most rapid rewiring of human relationships and consciousness in human history has made it harder for all of us to think, focus, forget ourselves enough to care about others, and build close relationships.
Jonathan Haidt • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
A good book that would help us is Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan. It should be the online behavior bible of the 21st century. We all use media 24/7 but most of us have never truly studied it.
Timothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
STEPPING OUT OF THE CULTURESCAPE
Vishen Lakhiani • The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed on Your Own Terms
The Enlightenment Trap
Michael Brown • Alchemy of the Heart
So when someone declares that we can reshape our understanding of excellence and achievement around strange new principles appointing human beings as the center of our social universe, it’s understandably difficult to swallow.
Todd Rose • Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment
A public square and an education system that systematically undermine the virtues required to sustain a society will, unsurprisingly, produce a generation of citizens who lack those virtues.
Moshe Koppel • Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures
Haidt is soft-spoken but not meek. His words are measured, and when he listens he is one of the few people I’ve ever met who actually stops to consider everything that he is being told.