one of the continents leading thinkers, wayne davis, professor of anthropology at the university of british columbia, and canada, and author of dozens of books, most recently beneath the surface of things, weight. thank you so much for joining us. um i would say i, i really enjoyed. um are very, very depressing. discussion years ago i it was during the era of cove it and you wrote a powerful rolling stone article called the unraveling of america. i love to kind of pick which stock with you on whether you think america is still unraveling or whether we put an equilibrium or what you think the big equities of this moment are . you know, i hear you. it's a really excellent question, steve. you know, that essay that i wrote as you said, the very low point of the lock down. i was about an indictment of america. if anything was an intervention, you know, when people that you love, you need to be encouraged to see themselves in the mirror to see how far they fall and if you will. and that's an active love, you know, i mean corey booker themes and said, you know, if, if america hasn't broken your heart, you

there are two summary papers that adeleaphne ling at the university of british columbia did that looked aton, executive function and found in these studies that they are more predictive of achievement health wealth and quality of life more typically than iq and thentatus. they're even more important for school readiness than, iq ading and math. they're more important for school suc than the knowledge, content knowledge. so we're very focused on content knowledge in schools, but we're not teaching skills that are evenmportant life success like marital happiness and keeping a job and career advancing. so what are executive function skills? i ask a lot g skills are to all you know and how many know what they. so many of you. these are attention, regulations. they they're based on focusing paying, and they are. they're for skills that go under. so that's the umbrella. i think of it as an umbrella. the umbrella is f umbrella are are for subkn memory. so you have to use thinking flexibly because the world changes. so you have to be able to change with it reflecting and that actually does not

the, the culmination of a lot of because i got and got to poland things from apes the university of british columbiahas a incredible historical newspaper archive. again all digitized, pulling things from the nation archive, because boaz so depended on that progressive publication that he had it mailed across country to fort robert when he was doing his conducting his last fieldwork, which is what the introduction about that period in boaz, his life and that that was fascinating and i'm very grateful just for the the honor of getting to write. so the first little vignette i want to share with you has to do with vilhelm viki. don't know how germans actually saw it, but boas's family servant and alan says this is just what middle class or upper middle class people did in those days. they had, their servants come along to their room, you know, to baffin island very remote outpost. i think that it's because both is very warm but also a somewhat protective family wanted the servant along to kind of protect boss but boaz takes him surveying these different regions and he gets frostbite and as allan mention