#TheCoddlingOfTheAmericanMind 個人暫時註解：講述美國價值觀互動的巨嬰如何煉成的。

我同意受苦受傷本身就是類似免疫疾病一樣，人體和人心不可能百毒不侵，但是可以加強自己的抵抗力（耐受力），並且調養自己的內心改善應對的防禦力。

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讀了開頭的 #TheCoddlingOfTheAmericanMind，我想到臺灣近來也有照顧孩子如同照顧溫室的花朵這樣的諷喻，而美國的青少年心理疾病案例上升，臺灣也是一樣。
#2023讀冊

"Argue as if you're right, but listen as if you're wrong."

The Coddling of the American Mind (PG. 240)

This advice is given at the end of the book in a chapter focused on making wiser kids, but think about the words. Need they apply only to children? Anyway, if they are applied to children, would they not result in adults of such ways? Certainly, they would, as adults are just grown up kids.

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