ISBN号:9781668007990
书名:The Age of Magical Overthinking
作者:Amanda Montell
出版日期:2024-04-09
英文简介:
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.
中文简介:
《纽约时报》即时畅销书 由畅销书《Cultish》作者和播客《Sounds Like a Cult》主持人创作，这是文化批评和个人叙事的美妙融合，探讨了我们的认知偏见以及魔法思维的力量、缺点和亮点。
阿曼达·蒙特尔利用她“机智而才华横溢”（布莱斯·罗伯森，《美丽的美国》的作者？）的第一本书《Wordslut》中的语言学见解以及她的突破性热门作品《Cultish》中的社会学探索，现在将她博学的目光转向人类思维的内部运作。
以及她迄今为止最个人化、最激动人心的作品中的偏见。
“神奇思维”可以广义地定义为相信一个人的内部思想可以影响外部世界中无关的事件：想想一个人可以摆脱贫困的信念，用积极的氛围来避免癌症，通过学习来阻止世界末日自己罐头桃子，或者仅凭忠诚将不健康的关系转变为光荣的关系。
各种形式的魔法思维都有助于在混乱中恢复能动性，但在《魔法过度思考时代》中，蒙特尔认为，在现代信息时代，我们大脑的应对机制已经超负荷，我们的非理性达到了十一级。
在一系列尖锐而有趣的章节中，蒙特尔深入研究了我们大脑中猖獗的认知偏见，从“光环效应”如何培养对伟大名人的崇拜（和仇恨），到“ “沉没成本谬误”可能会让我们在意识到关系没有为我们服务很久之后仍处于有害的关系中。
当蒙特尔用她标志性的才华和智慧阐释这些概念时，她传达的主要信息是对我们陷入焦虑的人类自身的希望、同理心和最终的宽恕。
如果你对我们的推理能力几乎失去信心，蒙特尔的目标是让无意义的事情变得有意义。
打开我们心灵的一扇窗户，让一阵温暖的微风吹进来。
帮助暂时平息杂音，甚至听到其中的旋律。
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书籍单词数在5万至10万之间，难度适合,不过还需要结合下方难度分析。
其中：
四级单词出现48383个/次,
六级单词（排除四级单词后）出现1382个/次，
托福单词出现27358个/次，
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雅思单词出现14832个/次。
高中单词出现46322个/次。
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这些统计基于我的词库，不排除词库存在误差，仅供参考。
非常欢迎大家提供自己收集的词库给我。
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