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100 1  Montell, Amanda. 
245 14 The age of magical overthinking|h[electronic resource] :
       |bNotes on modern irrationality.|cAmanda Montell. 
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520    INSTANT  NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER     From the 
       bestselling author of  Cultish  and host of the podcast  
       Sounds Like a Cult , a delicious blend of cultural 
       criticism and personal narrative that explores our 
       cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and 
       highlights of magical thinking.  Utilizing the linguistic 
       insights of her "witty and brilliant" (Blyth Roberson, 
       author of  America the Beautiful? ) first book  Wordslut  
       and the sociological explorations of her breakout hit  
       Cultish , Amanda Montell now turns her erudite eye to the 
       inner workings of the human mind and its biases in her 
       most personal and electrifying work yet.    "Magical 
       thinking" can be broadly defined as the belief that one's 
       internal thoughts can affect unrelated events in the 
       external world: Think of the conviction that one can 
       manifest their way out of poverty, stave off cancer with 
       positive vibes, thwart the apocalypse by learning to can 
       their own peaches, or transform an unhealthy relationship 
       to a glorious one with loyalty alone. In all its forms, 
       magical thinking works in service of restoring agency amid
       chaos, but in  The Age of Magical Overthinking , Montell 
       argues that in the modern information age, our brain's 
       coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our 
       irrationality turned up to an eleven.    In a series of 
       razor sharp, deeply funny chapters, Montell delves into a 
       cornucopia of the cognitive biases that run rampant in our
       brains, from how the "Halo effect" cultivates worship (and
       hatred) of larger than life celebrities, to how the "Sunk 
       Cost Fallacy" can keep us in detrimental relationships 
       long after we've realized they're not serving us. As she 
       illuminates these concepts with her signature brilliance 
       and wit, Montell's prevailing message is one of hope, 
       empathy, and ultimately forgiveness for our anxiety-addled
       human selves. If you have all but lost faith in our 
       ability to reason, Montell aims to make some sense of the 
       senseless. To crack open a window in our minds, and let a 
       warm breeze in. To help quiet the cacophony for a while, 
       or even hear a melody in it. 
533    Electronic reproduction.|bNew York :|cAtria/One Signal 
       Publishers,|d2024.|nRequires the Libby app or a modern web
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