This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, best-selling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

I am your host, Michael Covell, not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

I want to do something a little different today.

I want to give people an idea about how to best go about learning how to become a trend

following trader.

So let me start this episode with the mention of two articles.

Because I know often when people come at trend volunteering for the first time,

they immediately get fixated on the rules alone.

They get fixated on perhaps in their own mind some magic potion.

Names of these two articles are very straightforward.

One was in Smithsonian.com.

It's called, why are super achievers so successful?

The other was in the New York Times.

It's called the secret ingredient for success.

So let me pull this up real quick.

So what are some of the common threads?

That's one of the questions that's posed in this article in the Smithsonian.

A common thread of the super achiever.

And the article goes on to say, probably the biggest is self-awareness,

the ability to be self-questioning. I love to talk to Martina Navratilova. She had picked

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