Introducing Magical Overthinkers

Magical Overthinkers

Amanda Montell & Studio71

Education, Science, Society & Culture

4.3 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Are you an overthinker? Prone to thought spirals? Do you wonder why, despite living in the "Information Age," life only seems to be making less sense? From extreme celebrity worshippers to people with master’s degrees basing their real-life choices on Mercury’s whereabouts, there seems to be a lot of delulu out there these days. More than ever, in fact. Enter: This relatable, thought-provoking podcast for curious overthinkers. Every other week, tune in as host Amanda Montell, author of the New York Times bestselling book The Age of Magical Overthinking and host of the Sounds Like A Cult podcast, interviews a brilliant expert guest about a buzzy, confounding, anxiety-provoking topic. Think: narcissism, nostalgia, polyamory, social media comparison, "millennial cringe." Complete with heart-on-their-sleeve personal stories, thought-provoking conversations, and actionable takeaways for how chronically online listeners can get out of their own heads, this podcast is here to make some sense of the senseless. To help quiet the cacophony in our brains for a while. Or even hear a melody in it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Magical Overthinkers podcast, a show for thought spirulers, exploring the subjects we can't stop overthinking about.
0:13.5	From celebrity worship to nostalgia to social media comparison.
0:18.0	This podcast was inspired by the New York Times bestselling book, The Age of
0:22.2	Magical Overthinking, Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montel. That's me, your host. I am a
0:28.9	textbook overthinker. Living in this incredibly confounding information age, I often find myself
0:35.6	over-analyzing the world to death as an attempt to make sense of it.
0:40.3	But all that overthinking definitely doesn't help me overthink less.
0:43.3	If you have all but lost faith in others' ability to reason, or have made a cornucopia of questionable judgments that you can't even explain,
0:52.3	my hope is for this show to make some sense of the senseless.
0:56.0	Every other week, I'm going to interview a fascinating, wise, charismatic expert guest about some buzzy, confounding subject from the zeitgeist.
1:06.0	Think narcissism, imposter syndrome, girl math.
1:09.0	Every other Wednesday, you can expect an
1:11.4	overthinker's investigation into the subject at hand. Like our episode on
1:15.6	narcissism, for which I interviewed clinical psychologist and host of the
1:19.3	navigating narcissism podcast, Dr. Romani de Rosala. Grandios narcissism is more
1:24.1	common in men, but vulnerable narcissism, that's equal across genders.
1:29.0	Or our episode on monogamy, where I got to interview philosopher Dr. Ellie Anderson from
1:34.7	the Overthink podcast. For a long time throughout human history in many societies, marriage and
1:39.4	love didn't necessarily go together. That's wild. And be sure to stay tuned for the episode where we overthink about UFOs with the astrophysicist
1:47.9	slash folklorist Dr. Moyah McTier.
1:50.9	I have publicly stated aliens that I find attractive.
1:54.2	Who are the hottest aliens, you think?
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