Ep. 1074: Frank Keil Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Frank Keil, a professor of psychology & linguistics, and the chair of the psychology department at Yale University. Keil received his B.S. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973, an M.A. in Psychology from Stanford University in 1975, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977. Keil has published extensively on topics concerned with many areas in the development of cognition and language.

The topic is his book Wonder: Childhood and the Lifelong Love of Science.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Childhood
Different senses of wonder
Arguing in ways both wonderful and productive
How students explore and learn
How does science work, given how limited we are as computational creatures
How do young children track simple patterns and put them into miniature theories
How vital the word “audacity” is
What is the significance of the word “lifelong”

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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Transcript

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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 Coval, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.4	My guest today is Frank Kiel.
0:36.3	He is a member of the Cognition and Development Lab at Yale, where he is also a professor.
0:43.3	And today, another one of these great subjects that I love, wonder. And in this case, we're discussing Frank's book, Wonder, Childhood and the Lifelong Love of Science.
0:57.5	You know, kids, they've often got a better perspective than some of us jaded adults.
1:05.1	They're open.
1:06.5	They're willing to accept new information.
1:09.4	They experiment.
1:11.3	They go down the path, the Bayesian path, if you will.
1:16.0	And some of you might be thinking of Alison Gopnik, who I've had on this podcast, speaking
1:21.1	about that very issue.
1:22.9	But I love where Frank goes.
1:25.1	Because if we can get ourselves back to that childlike mind, not to be, you know, less educated, not to be not intelligent, but to have that, that passion for curiosity, that wonder.
1:42.6	It's an amazing way to be. There's absolutely no reason that we should be stifled,
1:50.4	that we should be held down. You have the power inside of you to do whatever in the hell you want to do.
1:58.7	And Frank Keel brings some great insights today that will hopefully motivate the hell out of you.
2:05.8	And if you are already somebody who wonders, hey, it's just confirmation.
2:10.6	If you're somebody who needs a good kick in the butt, here it comes.
2:15.6	I hope you enjoy this conversation with Frank Kiel.
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