Ep. 427: Michael Ellsberg Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2016
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Michael Ellsberg, an American author, blogger and public speaker. Ellsberg is credited for inventing "eye-gazing parties," a craze in 2010 where participants stare deeply into each other's eyes and follow up if they feel they made a connection. He is also a book editor and has spoken at Google and Peter Thiel's Fellow Retreat.
The topics are his books The Last Safe Investment: Spending Now to Increase Your True Wealth Forever and The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Super skill vs. Market skill
- Systemic spending
- Cultivating meaningful relationships
- Thinking three dimensional
- Creating happiness in your life
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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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. |
| 0:33.1 | My guest today is Michael Ellsberg. |
| 0:36.3 | Michael is an American author, blogger, public speaker. |
| 0:40.3 | One of his first books, The Education of Millionaires. |
| 0:43.9 | It's not what you think and it's not too late. |
| 0:48.1 | Really makes you ponder the notion of higher education. |
| 0:52.6 | I should interject before I talk about our conversation today. |
| 0:56.5 | I met Michael for the first time, the only time, summer 2011, Napa Valley at a Tim Ferriss |
| 1:04.8 | conference. |
| 1:06.1 | That Tim Ferriss conference for me has turned out to be quite fortuitous because so many people that have |
| 1:12.3 | appeared on this podcast, I actually met there. |
| 1:16.9 | Such a small world. |
| 1:18.5 | Just love that. |
| 1:20.7 | Today, Michael and I talk about his newest work with his co-author, Brian Franklin, the last safe |
| 1:26.7 | investment, spending now to increase your true |
| 1:29.6 | wealth forever. |
| 1:31.8 | This is a good read. |
| 1:34.0 | I recommend this read. |
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