Ep. 455: Ryan Holiday Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Ryan Holiday, an American author, public-relations strategist, bookstore owner and host of the podcast The Daily Stoic. He is a former director of marketing for American Apparel. Holiday is the author of several books and has written for Forbes, Fast Company, The Huffington Post, The Columbia Journalism Review, The Guardian, Thought Catalog, Medium.com, New York Observer, New York Times and Texas Monthly. Books he has authored have sold more than three million copies combined.
The topic is his book Ego Is the Enemy.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Letting other people win
- Being seen not heard
- Only the paranoid survive
- Dealing with failure
- Dealing with success
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. |
| 0:21.3 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.2 | My guest today is Ryan Holiday. |
| 0:35.5 | This is Ryan's I don't know how many times Ryan has appeared. |
| 0:38.8 | No, he's appeared a handful of times. |
| 0:40.6 | One of my favorite guests always brings fantastic insights. |
| 0:45.9 | Today we're discussing his new book, Ego is the Enemy. |
| 0:49.8 | I hope you enjoy this conversation with Ryan Holiday. |
| 1:00.7 | Thank you. I hope you enjoy this conversation with Ryan Holiday. First, let me say, I have to blame you for my Orson Wells addiction today. |
| 1:06.1 | Going through YouTube, I specifically caught a clip, an 11-minute clip from 1960, him being interviewed by the BBC, |
| 1:13.4 | and asking him if he thought his success was Citizen Kane at such a young age was a bad thing. |
| 1:20.9 | And, you know, having gone through your newest work, I'm like, wow, spot-on question. And his |
| 1:26.0 | answer was really great. His answer was like, look, |
| 1:28.2 | you know, these opportunities don't come along. You can't force it. And, you know, it came |
| 1:32.4 | along early in my life. I'm thankful for it. I wish they came all the time. And he was, |
| 1:36.8 | orson Welles as a character, but he was pretty humble about the answer. I thought it dovetailed |
| 1:40.0 | perfectly into where you're going with your work right now. I was really fascinated by him too, because I'd always heard that he was very embittered by what had |
| 1:47.9 | happened to him, that he made this amazing movie, |
| 1:50.7 | and it wasn't appreciated in its own time, |
| 1:52.8 | and that he'd been so viciously attacked by, you know, |
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