Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer, Jason DeFilippo.

Today we're talking with Jonathan Height. He's a social psychologist who studies the American culture wars and is widely considered to be one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of morality.

His new book is called The Codling of the American Mine, which I think is an awesome title. How good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure.

This is such an interesting read. This is a really good book about preparing the child for the road and not the road for the child, so to speak.

Height is really a clear-eyed thinker who doesn't take sides simply because he's supposed to. And that makes him the epitome of what a true scholar should be, in my opinion.

One convinced by facts and results and not by appeals to emotion and tradition. Today we're talking about the concept of safe spaces, trigger warnings and other things that are actually making us less safe and less prepared for the real world.

And what we should be doing instead to prepare ourselves and our kids for reality will also discuss cognitive distortions and how we become a victim of our own minds and mindsets and flawed mindsets at that. And what this can do to our mental health and we'll discuss the three fundamental untruths being perpetuated by some in and outside of academia and how we can fight that influence both in our institutions and in our own heads.

By the end of the show, you'll know how to spot flawed logic and flawed mindsets in yourself and in others. And you'll learn how to counteract those for a little mixed mental arts as self-defense here.

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All right, here's Jonathan Height. This book was really good, by the way. And you already know that because you wrote it. But what I thought was particularly interesting was that first I thought, look, I don't really need to worry about this stuff because I'm not in college.

I don't care about the news. I don't get easily offended. But the book is especially important for educators, but also parents, people in college, people who work in any kind of company where doing anything could cost them their job, which is kind of what we're talking about here.

This is all coming to you from a college near you.

Yes. And if you think I don't have to worry about that, just make sure that you're not a parent, not hiring anyone, not working with anybody except for people that look, dress, behave, think, live near, act like you.

If you work in your basement, you don't use the internet, then you're not listening to this right now, chances are, then you're fine. Otherwise, you're probably going to tiptoe into hot water, straight into hot water at some point.

But I was in the restroom earlier, and there was something like bias hotline. And I thought, oh, yeah, that might be useful, but it's probably one of those voicemail inboxes that has 17,000 things in it by 9 a.m.

Yes. So, okay, let's we'll come back to the bias for sure line because that is a that is something that really bothers me. The fact that in every bathroom at NYU, there's a sign telling students how to report me if I offend them.

Right.

And while it's important to have a way to report acts of racism or discrimination or harassment, those are illegal. But when we start telling students, we start teaching them about microaggressions.

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