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  • Release Date: 2020-07-18
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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intention and Bad Ideas Are  Setting Up A Generation for Failure

The Coddling of the American Mind was written to warn teens, young adults, parents, and the dangers of indiscriminate threats being taught in universities. Three untruths are being taught in our education system: 1) the thing that does not kill you makes you weak, 2) always trust your feelings, and 3) fighting between good people and bad people (9) is. 
These ideas are being projected through norms at home, at school, and in society. Three untruths oppose ancient studies, damaging contemporary psychology on welfare and the individuals and societies adopting it. These thoughts have increased anxiety, depression, and suicide in young people and inhibited their abilities to become independent thinkers.
Partisan parties and the media have isolated these ideas, manipulated them into politics and media, and spread a sense of fear on our college campuses. These three untruths have spread to private life, society, and democracy. It has become an unhealthy state of our society.
A prime example of how these untruths affect our youth is on our college campuses. In previous years, schools had speech codes to protect their campuses from sexism and racism. However, these codes have been dropped. Now students cry foul over any word in speech or text that causes them to have the feeling of being non-functional or "unsafe" through a trigger.
Students have become vulnerable through the notion of feeling insecure. Other students, who appear to be strong, support these movements to protect weakness and unrest in others. These encounters do not strengthen our youth. This causes them to be weakened by the indigenization of the first untruth, "what does not kill them what makes them weak."
Greg endured many bouts of depression throughout his life. They found this approach unhealthy compared to the method of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), which can successfully treat anxiety. CBT teaches a person to recognize unhealthy thought processes as "destructive" in which a person's misconception leads their mind to the worst outcome. These distortions are what is taught and encouraged on our campuses today. The result of this is that students start thinking about these negative patterns due to which they become anxious, fragile, and needy.
The by-product of this default behavior is that parents and teachers are now teaching students to maintain negative behaviors as ideals, which is what caused the anxiety and depression in the first place. This new set of ideals has led students to behave in defensive self-censorship in which students seek to embarrass other individuals or groups for insensitivity to their attitudes. This behavior of vengeful protection makes it difficult for students to be problem solvers and free thinkers.
While the term “coddle” means to spoil and protect, our young people who are striving to go to college are under tremendous pressure. The pressure to succeed academically and the race to get into the right school, including extracurricular achievements, are added to the new pressures of harassment, bullying, and competition via social media.
Globalization and artificial intelligence are resurrecting a future they are trying to prepare for, the promise of a stable work market — unstable. It is caused by the problem of progress in which bad results come from good intentions. The more our society progresses, the lower the challenge is for our young people.
Whether you are associated with your identity, background, or ideology, you would be better off to believe that the three untruths are in fact untrue.
Find challenges, do not avoid them. Refuse to accept slant thinking and replace it with correct thinking. Finally, give people a chance.

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