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")

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 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