Ep. 1042: Nate Zinsser Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Nate Zinsser, a renowned performance psychology expert who has taught three generations of soldiers, athletes, and executives to master the art of confidence and mental toughness. Zinsser is the director of the Performance Psychology Program at the United States Military Academy at West Point, the most comprehensive mental-training program in the country, where, since 1992, he has helped prepare cadets for leadership in the U.S. Army. He also has been the sport-psychology mentor for numerous elite athletes, including two-time Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning and the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers, as well as many Olympians and NCAA champions.

The topic is his book The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Confidence and Sport Psychology
Importance of Confidence
Confidence as Skill
Importance of State of Mind
US Military
Eli Manning Super Bowl Performances
Sense of Certainty

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 Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.4	My guest today has an endorsement on the front of his book from Eli Manning, two-time Super Bowl MVP.
0:42.2	Studying confidence with Dr. Zenzor helped me win two Super Bowls.
0:47.1	Who doesn't want that endorsement?
0:49.5	That's just fabulous.
0:51.5	My guest today is Nate Zinzer.
0:53.1	He is the director of the performance psychology
0:55.2	program at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This is the most comprehensive
1:01.5	mental training program in the country. He has helped two generations of cadets develop their
1:08.9	leadership in the U.S. Army.
1:16.3	And as I mentioned, Eli Manning, he has also helped out numerous pro athletes and pro sports teams.
1:24.1	Our conversation today is about confidence primarily and everything that stems from confidence.
1:28.5	Because look, we all need a little bit of that unshakable performance.
1:31.2	And Nate has done the hard work.
1:34.0	He's figured out what we all need to know.
1:39.0	Without any further delay, let's jump right into my conversation today about the confident mind with Nate Zinzer.
1:41.9	I hope you enjoy this conversation.
1:55.4	Music with Nate Zinzer. I hope you enjoy this conversation. Confidence is an awesome word.
1:59.0	And I like to think of myself as being a pretty confident person,
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