Ep. 1164: Paul Bloom Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Paul Bloom. He taught at the University of Arizona, and then at Yale University, where he continues to hold the position of Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology. He joined the Psychology Department at the University of Toronto in 2021. Paul studies how children and adults make sense of the world, with special focus on pleasure, morality, religion, fiction, and art. He has won numerous awards for his research and teaching. He is co-editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
The topic is his book Psych: The Story of the Human Mind.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- The human brain
- Properties of neural machinery
- Psychology
- Biological evolution
- Blasphemy laws
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.2 | My guest today is Paul Bloom. |
| 0:35.4 | He's a psychologist. |
| 0:41.1 | His book, Psych, the story of the human mind. |
| 0:47.9 | Paul has taken a very complicated deep topic that goes on and on and on. There have been textbooks upon textbooks written. But Paul has tried to reduce this topic to something, |
| 0:53.3 | whereas mere mortals can take advantage, |
| 0:55.9 | jump in, and walk away with some insights. |
| 0:59.0 | And you might be saying to yourself, what benefit ultimately is there for me? |
| 1:03.6 | I think it's about happiness. |
| 1:05.5 | It's a topic that's come up on this podcast many times. |
| 1:08.1 | If you can take something away from the thinking process, the understanding |
| 1:13.2 | of our mind that a guy like Paul Bloom can share with you to get you to a place of happiness, |
| 1:20.2 | more happiness, then it's worth it. Without any further delay, let's jump right into my conversation |
| 1:25.8 | today with Paul Bloom. |
| 1:27.0 | Music Without any further delay, let's jump right into my conversation today with Paul Bloom. |
| 1:41.0 | The story of the human mind, what's really interesting about that subtitle of your book, |
| 1:45.6 | the main title being psych, is it's not the story of the human brain. And I thought that'd be a great place to jump off with you just as a foundational thought from you. And look, |
| 1:51.8 | your book is diverse. We're only going to touch on topics today, enough to bring people into |
| 1:56.8 | the thinking and your mindset and what you can deliver in terms of an education to people |
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