Ep. 140: Tom Asacker Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2013

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Tom Asacker, an artist, writer, inventor, and philosopher. He writes, teaches, and speaks about radically new practices and ideas for success in times of uncertainty and change.

The topic is his book The Business of Belief: How the World's Best Marketers, Designers, Salespeople, Coaches, Fundraisers, Educators, Entrepreneurs, and Other Leaders Get Us To Believe.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Choice and distraction/distrust
Belief and its connection to how people make decisions and habit
Faith healers and how information can change our beliefs and perceptions
How the supermarket works as a metaphor for belief and choice
Vernon Smith and Daniel Kahneman
The instinctive "feeling" mind vs. the slow, deliberate thinking mind
Leading people to choose themselves vs. just getting a job
Thinking like a child
Comfort vs. desire
Why those that have nothing to lose can put themselves in the best position for success
Pulling the curtain back on your own mind to determine what your own mind is doing to prevent you from living a full life
The power shift to the individual via the internet
Why we see what our minds are conditioned to see
Practice, hard work, and passion
The metaphor of baseball, perception, belief, and behavior
Thinking your way to a change vs. acting your way to a change
Alan Watts, and the question of "What if money was no object?"

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 Cobell.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.3	That's my passion.
0:32.8	Today in the podcast, I have Tom Asicker,
0:35.4	and Tom has written a new book called The Business of Belief,
0:39.6	how the world's best marketers, designers, salespeople, coaches, fundraisers, educators, entrepreneurs,
0:45.8	and other leaders get us to believe.
0:50.0	Definitely, definitely thought-provoking.
0:52.6	And Tom, he's been helping people see the marketplace and they work differently for a long time.
0:56.8	Teaching, inspiring organizations and entrepreneurs for over 20 years.
1:00.7	Big speaker.
1:01.9	Really good stuff.
1:03.4	I hope you enjoy this podcast.
1:05.0	I had fun.
1:09.4	Hello.
1:14.6	Tom.
1:15.8	Michael.
1:16.7	How are you?
1:17.9	Good.
1:18.2	How you doing?
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