354: Building Up Your Mental Health Immunity with Andy Norman
“I urge us to rethink the idea that everyone is entitled to their opinions, and actually come to understand our cognitive responsibilities and appreciate how significantly they mitigate or place boundaries around our cognitive rights.”
Among COVID-19’s many side effects are two that seem to be in direct conflict – on the one hand we’ve all become armchair epidemiologists, and on the other, conspiracy theories are at an all time high. In the common search for answers regarding the virus, some have put all their faith in the certainties of science while others are just as committed to making decisions based upon opinions and beliefs. This leads to the question, ‘What happens when we apply our newfound knowledge of diseases to parasitic infections of the mind?’, and today, Andy Norman offers his response as he discusses his new book, Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think, which maps out how bad ideas can take on these parasitic qualities and outlines what we can do to generate cognitive antibodies.
