Ep. 1108: Elaine Fox Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Elaine Fox, a professor of Psychology and head of the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide. A leader in research on the role of cognitive mechanisms in mental health across the lifespan, Professor Fox's work focuses on the nature of human emotions and why people respond differently to adversity and success. She has published over 120 academic papers in peer-reviewed journals or edited volumes.

The topic is her book Switch Craft: The Hidden Power of Mental Agility.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Why she chose Donald Trump as an example
Intellectual humility
The supremacy of social media tools
Rigid mindset into a growth mindset
When is it necessary to be gritty
Measuring mental agility
Explaining dialectical behavioral therapy
How do we get people to be more agile?

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.

To start? I’d like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/

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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

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.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.3	My guest today is Elaine Fox.
0:35.7	We are talking her new book, Switchcraft, the hidden power of mental agility.
0:42.5	Look, it's no secret. In this day and age, too many people have got too many biases. They're living inside too many bubbles.
0:50.5	The agile mind is not in their repertoire. They don't have that in their toolkit. Emotional awareness,
0:57.5	situational awareness, it's not there. And if you've listened to this podcast, you know that if I can
1:03.0	find a psychology professor who has done a deep dive and has some great insights, these are some
1:08.9	amazing insights in the sense. How they parallel trend
1:12.7	following trading? Terribly interesting to me. But if I can find that professor, and today I do,
1:18.1	always on this podcast, I remain forever lucky that I get to keep going to school and talking to smart
1:24.5	people that have done the hard work, get to condense it down and give me a little bit of a cliff notes version.
1:30.4	Now, of course, when I say that, just so you know the audience out there,
1:33.4	I'm reading these books that I get.
1:35.6	So I do the deep dive.
1:37.8	Without any further set up from me,
1:40.0	I hope you enjoy this podcast with Elaine Fox.
1:53.6	Music I hope you enjoy this podcast with Elaine Fox. Here's where I want to start out of the gate.
1:55.6	This is a topic that you've put together, which I think is terribly important for the modern age,
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