Subscribe to Trend Following Radio on iTunes
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
“You can’t learn to be an adult unless you can get away from adults.” – Peter Grey
Mentions & Resources:
Listen to this episode:
- Listen to this podcast on iTunes. (Please leave a rating!)
- Listen on Spotify.
- Listen on Stitcher.
- Libysn RSS.
- Download as MP3 by right-clicking here and choosing “save as.”
- Free Video.
Jump in!
Get the foundation to making money in up, down and *surprise markets on the Trend Following mailing list.
