The Psychological Cost of Being Entertained - Lt. Col. Dave Grossman : 566
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🗓️ 12 February 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman is a retired US Army Ranger and paratrooper, and a former West Point Psychology Professor. He is also the director of the Killology Research Group and actually developed the term “killology,” considered the study of the psychological and physiological effects of killing and combat on the human psyche.
Dave is an accomplished author who has published four novels, two children’s’ books, and six non-fiction books, which include his perennial bestseller On Killing.
Since his retirement from the US Army in 1998, he has been on the road almost 300 days a year for two decades as one of our nation’s leading trainers for military, law enforcement, mental health providers, and school safety organizations.
In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, we talk about developing a “bulletproof mind,” the effect that violent visual entertainment has on children, as well as ways to bulletproof your marriage and your kids.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asbury. |
| 0:16.2 | Today's cool fact of the day is that our Neanderthal ancestors probably led no more |
| 0:22.4 | violent lives than us humans, at least according to skull damage. |
| 0:27.2 | It looks like Neanderthals did experience plenty of head injuries, but they didn't get any more than |
| 0:33.2 | other stone age humans. Rates of fracture and other bone damage in a large sample of them, |
| 0:38.9 | matches rates previously reported for human foragers and even for farmers in the past 10,000 years. |
| 0:44.1 | It turns out men, as you might expect, suffered the bulk of harmful knocks to the head, |
| 0:51.8 | whether they were Neanderthals or ancient humans. Maybe that's where they call us, |
| 0:55.6 | guys, hard-headed statistical bottles run by the team indicate that skull injuries affected |
| 1:00.4 | about 4% to 33% of Neanderthals and 2% to 34% of ancient humans. Maybe cavemen had thicker |
| 1:08.1 | skulls for some other reason, maybe just because it made them look cool. |
| 1:12.1 | Well, because foreshadowing is my craft, you might imagine we're going to talk about violence |
| 1:18.8 | today. In fact, we are. We're going to talk about more than just violence. We're going to talk |
| 1:23.8 | about combat. We're going to talk about killing. We're going to talk about human biology, |
| 1:28.8 | the way your nervous system works, with one of my, actually, one of the most impressive authors |
| 1:35.2 | that you may not have heard of, someone whose books just completely blew me away because of the |
| 1:41.0 | science and the human behavior and just the humanists that was in them. I'm talking about a couple |
| 1:46.0 | of books by Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman, who's a retired US Army Ranger and a paratrooper |
| 1:52.1 | former West Point Psychology professor, who's the director of the Kilology Research Group, |
| 1:57.8 | and actually developed that term, which is the study of psychological and physiological effects |
| 2:03.6 | of killing and combat on the human psyche. He's written four novels, a couple of kids' books, |
| 2:09.6 | some nonfiction books, and especially on killing, which is a book that you absolutely have to read, |
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