Why We Overthink (Amanda Montell)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Elise Loehnen

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Amanda Montell is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality, as well as Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism and Wordslut. Amanda is a linguistics major from NYU and all of her work centers around the way that words—and thoughts—shape our minds, and how our minds are permeable to other factors, whether it’s the halo effect, confirmation bias, or Cult-like sensibilities. Amanda is also the host of a podcast, “Sounds like a Cult.” Okay, let’s get to our conversation. MORE FROM AMANDA MONTELL: The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language Follow Amanda on Instagram Amanda’s Website Amanda’s Podcast: “Sounds Like a Cult” Amanda’s Newsletter To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Elise Lunan, host of Pulling the Thread. Today I'm joined by Amanda Montel, author of
0:06.5	Coltish and the recently released New York Times bestseller, The Age of Magical Overtinking.
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0:49.1	Hi, it's Elise Loonen, host of pulling the thread.
0:52.7	On this show, we pull apart the web in which we all live to understand who we are and why we're here.
0:59.2	Pulling the thread is about big questions.
1:01.9	Why we do what we do, how we can understand our own experiences within a larger spiritual and historical context,
1:08.3	the ways in which we might begin to understand ourselves and each other
1:11.4	better, and what's required to heal ourselves in our world. I'll be joined in conversation by
1:17.2	luminaries and wise elders, those who have laid tracks in their work and lives to help us
1:21.8	bring meaning and understanding to a world that often feels chaotic and overwhelming.
1:27.0	My hope is that these conversations spark
1:29.1	moments of resonance and plant tiny seeds of awareness so that we might all collectively
1:34.2	learn and grow. Those of us growing up in consumer society, when confronted with a problem,
1:42.1	our tendency is to add a whole bunch of cumbersome variables
1:46.6	to the equation.
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