#61 Jonathan Haidt: When Good Intentions Go Bad

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Farnam Street

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Jonathan Haidt is an author, social psychologist and one of the world’s leading experts in moral psychology. On the show we discuss helicopter parenting, the rise of the “call out culture,” and the dangers of social media.

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0:00.0	These are kids about 18 to 22. This was just a few months ago.
0:03.7	And then I say, how many of you had any restrictions?
0:05.8	Like your parents put limits, hardly any hands went up.
0:09.3	I said, how many of you, when you have kids,
0:11.8	will let your kids use devices without restrictions?
0:14.0	Not a single hand went up. They all said, no, this was wrong.
0:17.2	I wish my parents hadn't done this.
0:19.3	Hello and welcome. I'm Shane Parish and this is the Knowledge Project.
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0:58.5	Today I'm speaking with Jonathan Hyte.
1:00.8	John is the professor of ethical leadership at New York University's Stern School of Business.
1:05.8	John is a PhD in social psychology. He's the author of the happiness hypotheses,
1:10.5	the righteous mind, and more recently the coddling of the American mind with his co-author Greg
1:16.3	Luke Yanoff. We're going to talk about how we
1:18.3	cuddle kids and what to do about it. Whether video games are harmful, the variables of hierarchy
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