Ep. 449: Neil Pasricha Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following
Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Neil Pasricha, an author, entrepreneur, podcaster, and public speaker characterized by his advocacy of positivity and simple pleasures. He is also an established speaker and his TEDx talk, "The 3 A's of Awesome", is ranked as the ninth most inspiring TEDx talk with over 3 million views to date. In total, he has sold over 1 million books. The book and TED talk are based on Pasricha's blog, 1000 Awesome Things. The blog has won three Webby Awards and ranked in PC Magazines list of top blogs and websites in 2009 and 2010.
The topic is his book The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Happiness
- Retirement is a lie
- Loving your work
- The lottery
- The note card system
- Criticism
- Goals are never ending
- Having less wants in 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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| 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. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.2 | My guest today is Neil Pazerisha. |
| 0:36.4 | He's the New York Times best-selling author of The Happiness |
| 0:39.7 | Equation. His blog, 1,000 Awesome Things, which counts down one small pleasure at a time. |
| 0:49.8 | For example, like a snow day or bakery, or finding money in your coat pocket. |
| 0:56.0 | And he did this every single day for 1,000 straight days. |
| 1:00.9 | An immensely popular blog led to an immensely popular TED appearance. |
| 1:07.0 | For me, when I hear Neil talk, it seems like common sense. |
| 1:11.9 | We should all know this. |
| 1:15.0 | But in this busy, hectic world, often we don't pay attention. |
| 1:21.6 | Neil brings great insights on finding happiness and staying positive. |
| 1:27.9 | I hope you enjoy this conversation with Neil Passerich. |
| 1:34.3 | Millions of views of you speaking at a TED event, probably multiple TED events. |
| 1:43.4 | There are over a million copies of books sold that you have written. TED event, probably multiple TED events, there are over a million copies |
| 1:45.6 | of books sold that you have written. I mean, that is, I feel in my little world there's been |
| 1:50.6 | over 100,000, but over a million, that's a big number. You're probably going to start doing |
| 1:55.4 | more soon here with the release of your new work. And I imagine that these events, these are the secret. |
| 2:03.8 | These are the source of your happiness, aren't they? |
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