Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Title: Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality Author: Amanda Montell ISBN: 9781668007976 Publisher: Atria/One Signal Publishers Published: 2024 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Memoir 1587149 Publisher Description: 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