Ep. 457: Amy Herman Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2016
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Amy Herman. In 2000 Amy started a program called, The Art of Perception at The Frick Collection in New York City. She helps her students figure out how to fix big picture problems by looking at the small details. Her new book is "Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life."
The topic is her book Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Undoing perceptions
- COBRA methodology
- Listening to your sixth sense
- Situational awareness
- See something say something
- Pertinent Negative
- Critical inquiry
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 | A big thank you to all of my listeners. |
| 0:03.7 | And if you would like to support this transmission even more and boost your trading account, |
| 0:09.7 | go to trendfollowing.com slash now. |
| 0:16.6 | And without any further delay, on to today's show. |
| 0:30.4 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:40.0 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, best-selling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:48.7 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. That's my passion. |
| 0:56.5 | Today's podcast is outside the box. |
| 1:01.7 | Well, I guess I could make an argument that all of my podcast are outside of the box. |
| 1:06.7 | Amy Herman has a new book out called Visual Intelligence. |
| 1:10.0 | Sharpen your perception, change your life. Amy is all about art. Amy takes art, |
| 1:15.9 | basically puts it in front of a classroom, and gets people to think differently. How could |
| 1:23.6 | Monet's water lily paintings help save your company millions, Amy has an answer. Really cool |
| 1:30.1 | insights. And I hope you enjoy this conversation with Amy Herman. |
| 1:41.3 | So Amy, I just got back from Taipei, Taiwan. I stayed at a hotel that I normally wouldn't want to stay in, a W hotel. They're fine. They're nice. I mean, kind of a, I guess, a cool place to be. I don't really like to be that cool. But before I had picked up your book, before I had dug into your book, I was |
| 2:03.8 | laying in bed in this nice room, and I was thinking to myself, how many LED lights can I count |
| 2:11.2 | that are on in this room? It must have been 20. I mean, so I'm making a note to myself. |
| 2:18.9 | I'm like, oh my gosh, there's got to be a business here that I can have to block out LED lights when you go to hotel rooms. |
| 2:25.3 | Great. |
| 2:26.1 | So then, of course, I get into your book. |
| 2:28.3 | Lo and behold, there's this soap story. |
| 2:30.1 | And it turns out somebody's already doing something with LED lights. |
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