In a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power\, disadvantages\, and highlights of magical thinking\, Amanda Montell now t urns her erudite eye to the inner workings of the human mind and its biase s in her most personal and electrifying work yet.
\n&ldquo\;Magical thinking&rdquo\; can be broadly defined as the belief that one&rsquo\;s in ternal thoughts can affect unrelated events in the external world: think o f the conviction that one can manifest their way out of poverty\, stave of f cancer with positive vibes\, thwart the apocalypse by learning to can th eir own peaches\, or transform an unhealthy relationship to a glorious one with loyalty alone. In all its forms\, magical thinking works in service of restoring agency amid chaos\, but in \;The Age of Magical Overthink ing\, Montell argues that in the modern information age\, our brain&rsquo\ ;s coping mechanisms have been overloaded\, and our irrationality turned u p to an eleven.
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