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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Jess Shatkin: The Psychology of Adolescence

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Jess Shaktin is one of the leading minds and foremost voices in child and adolescent mental health and development. He’s helped uncover many secrets as to why adolescence is one of the most turbulent yet creative periods in someone’s life. He joins us in our latest episode to delve into the psychology of adolescence and discusses why we feel the need to fit in during puberty, how and why we learn easier during this time, and much more!


Dr. Jess Shatkin is one of the country’s foremost voices in child and adolescent mental health. He has authored more than 100 articles, chapters, and published abstracts throughout his career. He is the author of the book Born to Be Wild.

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But we are absolutely designed to be attractive peers and to do everything possible to become attractive peers.

0:07.3

You know testosterone as one example is not only there to make our voices lower and grow hair on our bodies and big muscles, which is important

0:14.8

for survival as you become an adult, it's also there to clue us into the social zeitgeist.

0:19.1

It's all about what's my role in this hierarchy.

0:22.4

And once kids hit puberty,

0:24.0

they care immensely more than they have before

0:27.0

and more than they ever will again

0:28.0

about how others perceive them.

0:31.0

And it's because of testosterone that we start to gauge ourselves against others.

0:36.0

And you know it's not always competition and fighting in terms of fighting or out racing someone

0:41.9

or being a better football player, you know, in various

0:45.4

settings depending on what the culture is that will determine how people compete.

0:49.5

So you know in in monasteries Tibetan monks in training adolescent boys compete to be

0:55.0

more kind and compassionate than other Tibetan Buddhist monks. So one of the lessons

0:59.6

here for parents is that you really want to think about what social groups your kid is in and

1:04.9

you want to help to guide that as much as you can because if they're on the swim

1:07.8

team and the goal is to be the fastest swimmer that's like a really great goal

1:11.4

to have or to be one of the better swimmers but if they're not

1:14.7

getting fulfillment from swimming or academics or playing in a rock band or whatever else it is

1:19.2

they'll find themselves at the bottom of this pecking order and other brain changes will absolutely take

1:24.3

effect that will make it more likely that they hang out with kids who aren't engaged in such

1:28.4

exciting things and are not doing well in school and using drugs and that kind of thing.

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