Ep. 261: Andy Puddicombe Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Andy Puddicombe, the founder of Headspace, an award-winning digital health platform that provides guided meditation sessions. Puddicombe is a former Buddhist monk with a degree in Circus Arts.
The topic is meditation.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Puddicombe's background and how he came into the position he is in today
- Some traumatic events which may have had an influence on Puddicombe's decision to become a monk
- Covel's own meditation experience
- Comparing mindfulness and meditation
- The importance of a daily practice
- Stress and the science behind meditation
- Neuroplasticity
- The wandering mind and unhappiness
- The idea of the present moment, and how traders that embrace the present moment have an advantage
- Intuition
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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| 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. |
| 0:32.9 | Today in the show I have Andy Puddikam. |
| 0:35.5 | He is the founder of Headspace, |
| 0:43.9 | an award-winning digital health platform that provides guided meditation sessions for its users. |
| 0:47.9 | Andy is a former Buddhist monk with a degree in circus arts. |
| 0:57.3 | And yes, this man just decided he was going to go to the mountains in Central asia to learn about buddhism to learn about meditation and he did it what a great story what a great conversation what a great |
| 1:03.5 | personality oh and if you say to yourself this is not for you i don't need meditation i don't |
| 1:09.3 | need to learn to relax i overcome my stress by drinking a bottle of Jack Black every night. |
| 1:16.1 | Oh, come on. |
| 1:18.1 | Andy really brings some cool insights. |
| 1:21.6 | I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:35.0 | I just want to know, and I'm going to say this, but I, maybe you'll correct me, |
| 1:39.6 | but how does an average guy, I mean, you know, obviously you're a smart guy and everything, |
| 1:48.2 | but how does an average guy make his way, make his way to a full ordination at one of the thousands of the Tibetan monasteries. I mean, you know, this is like the story that everyone reads about and says, |
| 1:53.5 | you, I'd like to go do that. That sounds really cool in National Geographic. You did it. You did |
| 1:58.4 | it. Yeah, it sounds like a romantic story, isn't it? I was at a university at the time. I was in the UK. I was studying for a sports science degree. |
| 2:11.6 | And I had, you know, I dabbled a little bit in meditation, so I started learning as young as 10 or 11. |
| 2:18.2 | Took lessons with my mum when I was quite young. |
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