When i was in prison Johnathan Haidt played an influential role in changing my life. His book, The Righteous Mind was one the first "real" (not fiction) books i read. This started me down a path of exploring humanity and what it means to be a person. I've completely changed my attitude and ways i treated people. Johnathan was the catalyst for that. Because of him is started reading books on the humanities and sciences.
Now im not as angry towards people and more empathetic of their views and their existence (tho, i still love shouting at the tv and my video games. Its my therapy!)
Thank you Johnathan!
Now that im home i enjoy all the videos on the internet and the vast works i can easily listen too.

I've been reported for teaching Virginia Woolf's suicide note, which was meant to demonstrate that she was not the "mad woman in the attic," and she was a loving human being in very serious pain, and that we should respect her suffering. The report said I should use more sensitivity. I cry IN CLASS every time it's read. This kind thing is out of control.

I wonder how much our litigious society has to do with this coddling.  If a kid falls on the playground and breaks his wrist, his or her parents are much more liable to sue the park or playground in the USA than in Britain.  Same with schools and peanuts.

We must reform education asap

During the mid 90's I was a Right leaning Libertarian working towards my B.A. in a fine arts program. It was 2 years of living hell. The Far-Left group think was so strong that I recall using words like "group-therapy" and "cult-ish behavior" to describe the majority of my teachers and classmates. I hated every minute of the two years, but looking back I do believe that the adversity of the experience has made me a better artist in the long run.

The first rule of any conversation is that everyone must be allowed to express their idea, without this rule there can be no conversation, or exchange of information, but this is what some people want. Jonathan Haidt is a great guy.

"Bias Response Teams"...once called Bolsheviks or in a famous novel, the Thought Police.

I've been teaching elementary school for 19 years and he eloquently expresses what he I have experienced in the classroom.

My mom made me start using power tools when I was in elementary school. While it was incredibly scary, it was incredibly valuable for my development.

Grew up in the 50's & 60's it was like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn;  I don't know how we survived doing what we did.

One of the clear conveyors of sober thinking of our time.  Right or wrong he starts with such a fair approach and attitude.  The onslaught of media conjecture and opinion that his rationale attempts to check is, unfortunately, so immense.  More like him are completely welcome.

Coming to this lecture quite late but this is still so relevant, sadly.

The material about which Dr Haidt writes/presents resonates sooooo powerfully. I share it whenever I can. Thanks for posting.

There's a beautiful Yiddish song/poem by Itzik Manger (You can see Leonard Nimroy, from Star Trek, talking about it on Youtube). A child wants to go and console a tree which had many birds tweeting in it, but the birds disappeared when they could see a storm coming. The boy tells his mother that he wants to go and console the tree and keep it company. Mother is concerned he will catch a bad cold . . . and worse . . .so she keeps putting more and more protective clothing on him. But he was hoping to fly like a bird . . Sadly, with mother's too-protective weight, he is unable to fly . . .

And here we are in 2022 and society has gotten infinitely worse because of everything he talked about here.

Now I can appreciate being a "street urchin" as my mother called me. Just being fed, schooled and immunized vs TB  Smallpox, DPT and polio - I'm more than grateful!

Exceptional messaging and content sharing for further study, including Jonathan Haidt’s books; The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind, and The Coddling of the American Mind.

Communicating and sharing experiences with difficult people is not only frustrating, it’s exhausting for most of us. Character, Critical Thinking and Maturity are antidote servants in our interactions with tough, brash, and toxic people - keeping our thoughts, emotions and feelings in check a requisite.

Social media is untidily scattered with those whom seemingly unable to control oneself, and moreover a vested interest to confront negatively, as if an attempt to create communication or community.

As you shared at the end, to counteract the lack of understanding or information, we must NOT replicate the uncontrollable responses and behaviors. Societal chaos is rampant with heightened emotions and feelings comfortably shared or halted by cancellation of thoughts that don’t allow conversations, which by in large is a social demise due to the anger or individuals/groups frustration fueling the chaos.

Only if we can develop a culture that has cognitive ability and willingness to grow in our areas of character, critical thinking and maturity will we be able to consider a person’s standpoint and find common ground for solutions to problems.  

A lack of these virtues and principles is completely derailing our social fabric, as the numbers of people who are mentally tough, and willing to take things with a grain of salt is bringing us them down and paralyzing the Family, community’s and cultural difficulties/differences.

Praise idea of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Academia Institutions, as an opportunity for future development and favorable if we’re all truly trying to embrace change for favorable outcomes… signs of good things to come.

Forcing me to go to after school programs was like the best thing about school for me

Brilliant!

Brilliant