Ep. 352: Tim Larkin Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following
Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Tim Larkin, one of America's leading Pro-Victim Rights and Personal Safety Advocates. He has had a 25 year career where he has trained over 10,000 clients in 52 countries in how to deal with imminent violence.
The topics are his books How To Survive The Most Critical 5 Seconds Of Your Life and Survive The Unthinkable.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Virginia Tech killings and why it is important to study violence
- Looking at sports injuries for the purpose of self-defense
- Honor in fighting
- The relation between prison gang leaders and CEOs
- The importance of focusing on the man and his mind rather than the tool
- Avoidable acts of violence
- Why the United Kingdom did not allow Larkin into the country
- Avoiding violence from a game theory perspective.
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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| 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. |
| 0:21.1 | I am your host, Michael Covel. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:32.8 | For those that pay close attention to my world, |
| 0:37.6 | you know that I've been beating this drum of logical fallacies. |
| 0:43.9 | Straw men, red herrings, loaded questions, ad hominim attacks. |
| 0:52.1 | It's just such a waste of time, and it's amazing how many intelligent people use these rhetorical devices to argue any point. |
| 1:02.8 | Oh, I forgot the emotional appeal. |
| 1:06.0 | It's not about the facts with them. |
| 1:08.2 | It's not about the logic. |
| 1:10.6 | They're just manipulative, |
| 1:12.5 | Machiavellian little people. So don't use logical fallacies to argue, to debate, to discuss. |
| 1:24.4 | It's a waste of time. And those people out there, the high achievers, or even the low |
| 1:31.6 | achievers, as someone made the point on my Facebook, even people that are not well known, |
| 1:36.4 | often have a very strong ethos, a very strong sense of code and don't behave this way. |
| 1:43.1 | So by no means, do I think it's only the high achievers that understand the use of logical |
| 1:48.3 | fallacies is bad. |
| 1:51.9 | A lot of people do. |
| 1:54.2 | But it's amazing to me, and I've just seen a fantastic number of examples in the last |
| 2:00.3 | short few weeks of people coming at me with these logical |
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