Ep. 413: Ron Friedman Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2016
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Ron Friedman, an award winning social psychologist that specializes in human motivation. He is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, CNN, Fast Company, and Psychology Today, as well as the author of the best-selling non-fiction book The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace.
The topic is his book The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Flow in the Workplace
- Creating a good work space
- Disconnecting from work after hours
- Creating balance in your life
- Importance of exercise and naps
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, best-selling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:20.7 | I am your host, Michael Covel. |
| 0:23.1 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:26.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.1 | I can't believe it's 2016. |
| 0:36.2 | Already. |
| 0:38.9 | 2013, 14, 15, boom, boom, boom, gone. |
| 0:44.5 | At the speed of light. |
| 0:49.3 | But I stay consistent. |
| 0:51.5 | I bring you those great minds. |
| 0:53.3 | I bring you those great guests. |
| 0:56.1 | My guest today is Ron Friedman. He's an award-winning social psychologist who specializes in, |
| 1:02.2 | near and dear to my heart, human motivation. His book, The Best Place to Workplace, The Art and Science |
| 1:09.5 | of Creating an extraordinary workplace. |
| 1:13.2 | Workplace, whether that's physical, whether that's with other people, or whether it's by yourself and not a physical location. |
| 1:22.7 | Ron brings great insights. |
| 1:24.6 | I hope you enjoy this conversation. |
| 1:39.6 | Ron, I want to read a little excerpt from your work, something I thought was really illustrative of the current day set of affairs. |
| 1:44.3 | Quote, |
| 1:49.6 | the latest figures indicate that a full 70% of American employees feel disengaged at their jobs. |
| 1:50.6 | Of these, |
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