Ep. 357: Jonathan Fader Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2015
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Jonathan Fader, a licensed clinical psychologist and is the team psychologist to the NY Mets baseball team. Fader also writes a blog for Psychology Today entitled 'The New You'. He maintains an active clinical practice, is an assistant professor of Family Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and teaches in the Beth Israel Residency Program in Family Medicine in New York City.
The topic is sports psychology.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Fader discusses motivational interviewing, sport psychology techniques, process v. outcome, the mistake of focusing only on results, mental state and stress, mindfulness, Facebook distraction, Eastern traditions, the moment of now, and quieting the mind. Issues discussed apply to life, trading, sports and business–Fader offers insights we can all use.
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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. |
| 0:21.1 | I am your host, Michael Cobell. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:32.9 | My guest today is Dr. Jonathan Fader, licensed clinical psychologist. |
| 0:38.4 | He is the team psychologist to the New York Mets baseball team. |
| 0:43.5 | He is also an assistant professor of family medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| 0:48.2 | and teaches in the Beth Israel Residency Program in Family Medicine in New York City. |
| 0:54.1 | One of his interesting techniques is something titled motivational interviewing, which we go |
| 1:00.5 | into today. |
| 1:02.9 | Jonathan adds to a long list of top minds in the field of psychology that have appeared |
| 1:08.3 | on my podcast. |
| 1:09.7 | I'm fortunate to have him, and I hope you enjoyed this conversation. |
| 1:21.2 | So as a young guy growing up, I'm in my mid-40s now. |
| 1:24.7 | I played a lot of baseball. |
| 1:26.0 | It was the only thing I liked to do as a teenager. |
| 1:27.9 | I played my first year into college. |
| 1:29.8 | I was a catcher. |
| 1:31.4 | I was a pretty good hitter. |
| 1:33.8 | But, you know, I saw the line in the paper. |
| 1:35.6 | The reason I reached out to you, and the art of hitting a baseball starts with emptying |
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