The Age of Magical Overthinking
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I really love Amanda Montell. But I do prefer her linguistic works. "The Age of magical Overthinking" is an essay collection about biases e.g. recency bias, Ikea-bias, confirmation bias etc. She starts off each essay by presenting a personal anectode which fits the bias and then continues to tell the reader about the research done in that field. I found most of the chapters hard to follow because Montell doesn't clearly seperate the sections about personal tellings from the ones about facts. I wish she would have structured those chapters more clearly. C
Title ≠ Content
Honestly, this book just wasn’t for me. The title sounded super promising, but the content didn’t match at all. It felt more like a mix of personal stories and random celebrity gossip than an actual exploration of overthinking. I didn’t really get much out of it, and I know the author has written better books. This one just wasn’t it.
I really wanted to like this book :( The content and writing felt all over the place. I must admit that I solely got this book because of its beautiful cover and dove in without reading the blurb - expecting a non-fiction book. I ended up reading a somewhat memoir about someone I knew nothing about and kept reading references to another book. (sometimes it felt like reading an ad for "Cultish")
Description
Book Information
Posts
I really love Amanda Montell. But I do prefer her linguistic works. "The Age of magical Overthinking" is an essay collection about biases e.g. recency bias, Ikea-bias, confirmation bias etc. She starts off each essay by presenting a personal anectode which fits the bias and then continues to tell the reader about the research done in that field. I found most of the chapters hard to follow because Montell doesn't clearly seperate the sections about personal tellings from the ones about facts. I wish she would have structured those chapters more clearly. C
Title ≠ Content
Honestly, this book just wasn’t for me. The title sounded super promising, but the content didn’t match at all. It felt more like a mix of personal stories and random celebrity gossip than an actual exploration of overthinking. I didn’t really get much out of it, and I know the author has written better books. This one just wasn’t it.
I really wanted to like this book :( The content and writing felt all over the place. I must admit that I solely got this book because of its beautiful cover and dove in without reading the blurb - expecting a non-fiction book. I ended up reading a somewhat memoir about someone I knew nothing about and kept reading references to another book. (sometimes it felt like reading an ad for "Cultish")