Ep. 232: Tucker Max Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2014
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Tucker Max, an American author and public speaker. He chronicles his drinking and sexual encounters in the form of short stories on his website TuckerMax.com, which has received millions of visitors since Max launched it as the result of a bet in 2000.
The topic is success.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Covel and Max talk about their first meeting, and Max's brutally honest advice to Covel
- Diet and nutrition
- The NCAA, college athletics, exploitation, the media, and having to 'beat' the system
- Marginal cost and marginal product
- Entrepreneurial thinking and Max's early career
- Max's experience in marketing
- Protecting your independence
- Christopher Hitchens
- Facing rejection in publishing, and how rejection is part of success
- How success only teaches you to repeat what you did before, and failure forces you to think
- What drives Max today
- How the landscape has changed in regards to authors
- The fight for authority and trust in the publishing world
- What motivates Tucker Max today--the quality of relationships you have with other people, and what you do that matters to others
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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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. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.3 | That's my passion. |
| 0:32.5 | Today in the podcast, I have Tucker Max. |
| 0:35.5 | Tucker is an author, entrepreneur. |
| 0:40.2 | He's also sold 3 million plus books, a significant number. His genre, a little bit different. Our conversation today, |
| 0:50.6 | much different than his genre. So if you know of Tucker, give this conversation a shot, something you're not going to expect. |
| 1:05.3 | Hey, how you doing, man? |
| 1:07.3 | What's going on, brother? |
| 1:08.2 | Good. |
| 1:09.7 | Appreciate you jumping in early. |
| 1:13.2 | Of course. |
| 1:14.9 | I'm about 12 hours ahead of you. |
| 1:18.3 | Yeah, I know. It was funny. I woke up about 8.30 and I was like, think about what I was going to do today. |
| 1:23.4 | I forgot I had this. And then my little alarm went off. And I was like, oh, my God. |
| 1:28.5 | I did I ever agree to do it 9 a. |
| 1:30.2 | This guy's gone. |
| 1:32.7 | It seemed totally reasonable when I did. |
| 1:34.8 | It was your idea. |
| 1:36.5 | It was your idea. |
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