I'm pulling away from the curb because I dropped my son off at school.

We all know what that means.

It's time for the drive to work.

Okay, today's topic is psychology.

So I talked about, I did a podcast of meeting my dad, and then when my dad died,

I did a podcast about my dad after he died, and I talked about how my dad imbuted me a love of games.

Well, I had another parent.

My mother, which you guys met and meet my mother,

my mom imbuted me a love of writing and of psychology.

So my mom, she's retired now, but she was a clinical psychologist.

She focused on adolescence.

But I really from her got this love of psychology of how do people tick.

How do people work?

And if you actually look through a lot of my works, for example, I talked about a play I did.

My favorite play I did in college was a play called Lego My Ego, where the idea is this character

is trying to make a decision and all his emotions are meeting to help make the decision.

This is years before Inside Out.

Or, for example, the mass market media game that I keep trying to make called mood swings,

where you're playing emotions.

Clearly, there's a through line.

I really enjoy psychology.

So the point of today's podcast is to talk about how my love of psychology has influenced my game design, which in turn

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