Ep. 1210: Thomas Curran Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following
Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
My guest today is Thomas Curran, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His primary area of expertise is the personality characteristic of perfectionism, how it develops, and how it impacts on mental health. His most notable work is the theory of cultural influences on perfectionism, which rose to special prominence following a 2017 publication of the first systems-level cohort study to show that perfectionism is on the rise in American, Canadian, and British college students.
The topic is his book The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Generational differences
- Levels of perfectionism
- Expectations and reality
- Impact of the culture of consumption on mental health
- Happiness and contentment
- Societal pressures
- Redefining success
Jump in!
---
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/
You can watch a free video here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/
Can't get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast
My social media platforms:
Twitter: @covel
Facebook: @trendfollowing
LinkedIn: @covel
Instagram: @mikecovel
Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 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. |
| 0:21.0 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.5 | A little provocation today. |
| 0:36.9 | In this busy, busy world where everybody wants to be the social media |
| 0:42.0 | influencer, everybody wants to be the lottery winner, and they just know they're going to be it. |
| 0:47.6 | They're the next one. |
| 0:48.9 | They're guaranteed. |
| 0:50.2 | They know it's going to happen for them. |
| 0:53.8 | Perfection. That's all they happen for them. Perfection. |
| 0:55.0 | That's all they see is perfection. |
| 0:56.9 | The perfection trap, so to speak. |
| 1:00.5 | My guest today, the good professor, Thomas Curran, we talk about his book, The Perfection |
| 1:05.1 | Trap, Embracing the Power of Good Enough. |
| 1:09.0 | This is one of those topics. |
| 1:10.5 | I don't care where you are and what you're |
| 1:12.2 | doing. We're all living this. We are all in the middle of it. We all have to deal with it. |
| 1:20.1 | What's good enough? Because perfection, pessimistic perfection, compete with your neighbor |
| 1:27.2 | for every issue. That's no way to live a life, |
| 1:31.1 | no fun. Without any further delay from me, let's jump right into my conversation with Thomas |
| 1:35.9 | Curran and talk about the perfection trap. I hope you enjoy. What is the perception of the Mike Covel podcast style, Thomas? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Michael Covel, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Michael Covel and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.