Ep. 415: Peter Gray Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2016

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Peter Gray, an American psychologist who currently occupies the position of research professor of psychology at Boston College. He is also a well known critic of standard learning systems, and calls himself an evolutionary developmental psychologist. He studies why children are the way they are by asking questions like: Why are children so playful? Why are they so willful? Why do children do what they do?

The topic is his book Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Hunter gatherer cultures
Self-reliance
Evolution of development in youth
Pros and cons of video games
Ways of implicating free play back into society

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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.
0:20.7	I am your host, Michael Covel.
0:23.1	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:26.3	That's my passion.
0:33.1	My guest today is Peter Gray.
0:35.6	He's an American psychologist who currently occupies the position of research professor of psychology at Boston College.
0:42.8	I stumbled into Peter's world, his work, quite randomly.
0:49.5	Reading an article.
0:51.9	Talking about the need for college students, this new need they have,
0:58.5	to seek out counseling on issues that decades ago they never would have sought out a counselor for,
1:08.3	never would have sought out mental help before, but now they do. It brings up the
1:16.1	issue of resiliency. The simple question becomes, are young people today resilient? Peter has a
1:24.6	really interesting book out, free to learn, why unleashing the instinct to play will make our children happier, more self-reliant, and better students for life.
1:36.1	Peter is a well-known critic of standard education systems, a man near and dear to my heart.
1:43.9	Wrote memorization. sitting at a desk,
1:48.0	and doing that for 12, 16, 20 years of your life,
1:53.6	while you're leaving something out.
1:57.1	In an age of no dodgeball,
2:00.5	political correctness run amok, safe spaces everywhere.
2:07.3	Peter Gray brings us all back down to Earth.
2:13.7	And perhaps leads us to the simple conclusion that looking backwards in time
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