Greg Lukianoff offered this summary of The Coddling of the American Mind as part of an update:
The central premise of the book is that we are giving a generation of young people extraordinarily terrible advice and then being frustrated with them when they follow it. We argue that we are unintentionally teaching a generation of students three “great untruths.” They are:
The great untruth of fragility: What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker.
The great untruth of emotional reasoning: Always trust your feelings.
The great untruth of us versus them: Life is a battle between good people and evil people.
(Note: In my most recent book with the great Rikki Schlott, The Canceling of the American Mind, we have added a fourth great untruth, The Great Untruth of Ad Hominem, “bad people only have bad opinions.”)”
