EventsNotes on Modern Irrationality with Amanda Montell - Online Author Talk

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Notes on Modern Irrationality with Amanda Montell - Online Author Talk

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

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Join us as we chat with bestselling author Amanda Montell about her newest book, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality.

In a blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative, Montell 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, or thwart the apocalypse by learning to can their own peaches. 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.

Montell delves into a cornucopia of the cognitive biases that run rampant in our brains. As she illuminates these concepts with her signature brilliance and wit, her prevailing message is one of hope, empathy, and ultimately forgiveness for our anxiety-addled human selves

About the Author: Amanda Montell is a writer and linguist from Baltimore. She is the author of the acclaimed books Wordslut, Cultish, and The Age of Magical Overthinking. Along with hosting the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, and more. She holds a degree in linguistics from NYU and lives in Los Angeles with her partner, plants, and pets.

This program is funded by the Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation.


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