Ep. 305: Mark Manson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2014

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Mark Manson, an author and personal development consultant. Manson has worked with thousands of people from over 20 countries and his writing offers a different take on the self-help genre. Manson calls it "self help from a first person perspective". He has sold over 15,000 copies of his book "Models: Attract Women Through Honesty" and almost 400,000 people read his site each month. He's been published and quoted on CNN, Huffington Post, Business Insider, Yahoo! News, The Sydney Morning Herald and a variety of other publications. He is also the CEO and Founder of Infinity Squared Media LLC.

The topic is personal development.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Why people are such ass—– on the internet
Internet communication vs. real world communication
Becoming desensitized to the internet
How Manson came to his entrepreneurial path and how he was inspired by "The 4-Hour Workweek"
Location independence and how travel has changed Manson
Consumerism in America
Having an excess of choice in your life
The type of business Manson has developed and why it's been successful
Why certain approaches to dating aren't emotionally healthy
Our bias against performers
Why Manson refers to himself as "self-help for people who don't like self-help"

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 Covel.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.3	That's my passion.
0:33.3	Before I jump into my guest today, I have a request.
0:37.1	If you like this podcast, jump onto iTunes and write a review for your time and toil, for your extreme effort.
0:46.1	It's really not that extreme.
0:48.8	Write a review on iTunes.
0:49.9	I will send you a free CD and DVD of Trend Following Extras.
0:54.4	Write the review. Send me an email, info, I-N-F-O and DVD of Trend Following extras. Write the review.
0:56.2	Send me an email, info, INFO at TrendFollowing.com with your address.
1:02.6	I will send those along CD and DVD.
1:07.3	Come on, that's easy.
1:08.2	Easy, breezy.
1:09.2	How hard is that effort?
1:12.0	And say something nice at iTunes.
1:15.2	I don't know.
1:15.7	Say something mean to.
1:17.8	Say something I can improve on.
1:19.2	Say something I can get better at.
1:20.6	Say something.
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