Parenting Your Grandmother's Advice

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Adam Sobel: I lost my grandmother in December, and she was an amazing person. And the advice that she would always leave you with when you know you were concluding your visit should say be good. She didn't even have to think about this explicitly like she lived this rich life. He says it's a conversational tick almost that your grandmother had his father had the exact same one which he loves. Sobel: The whole point is knowing her and knowing her my whole life. We're going to take a look at a poem that gets at some of this after we sign off.

Psychologist and writer Adam Mastroianni says our minds are like the keep of a castle protecting our deepest held values and beliefs from even the most skilled attacks. The only problem with this design for self-preservation is that it also can keep out wisdom that might be both useful and true. Mastroianni's summary of the problem is "you can't reach the brain through the ears." Listen as Mastroianni talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the implication of this view of mind for teaching, learning, and our daily interactions with the people around us.