Ep. 1242: Samuel Wilkinson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Samuel Wilkinson, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Yale Depression Research Program. His primary research has focused on depression and suicide prevention and has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Drug Abuse, the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

The topic is his book Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply about the Meaning of Our Existence.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Evolution and human nature
Science and religion
Purpose and meaning of existence
Convergent evolution
Competing dispositions and altruism
Inheritance of traits, intelligence, and behaviors
Free will and its significance
Biological perspective on human behavior
Importance of family and kin selection in evolution
A good society and its challenges

Jump in!

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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 Cobell.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.3	That's my passion.
0:33.5	My guest today is Samuel Wilkinson.
0:35.9	He is a professor at Yale. And he has a really interesting
0:39.3	book out that I quite enjoyed because he puts topics on the table that are not typically on
0:45.4	the table. His book, Purpose, what evolution and human nature imply about the meaning of our
0:52.5	existence. He jumps right into the deep end, science and
0:56.2	religion, the two competitors duking it out. But if you come from that evolutionary science
1:03.4	perspective, do you have to toss out the religious side? Or vice versa. I appreciate anyone who
1:10.6	puts the original thoughts on the table to get us all
1:13.1	thinking to all have a conversation. Important topics, important perspectives. I hope you enjoy this
1:19.8	conversation with Samuel Wilkinson.
1:34.3	I got to tell you, in advance of this, I started digging through your work and I'm like,
1:40.2	wow, you are in the deep end, a deep end that I like that you've gone to, but it's a little unusual for this day and age. It opens up potentially cans of worms for you, that
1:46.6	you're so openly discussing topics that it seems like in a world where one wrong word can cause
1:54.7	somebody to go off and say someone needs to be canceled or this or that. You are jumping
2:00.1	right into the deep end,
2:01.0	aren't you? I guess you could put it like that, yeah. Yeah. I was sharing with a friend that I was
2:07.5	going to be speaking with you and telling her about your work. She's Vietnamese living in Thailand,
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