This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

I am your host, Michael Covel.

Not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

Do you need permission to get through your day?

We all need a little permission.

But if you sacrificed your entire soul, your entire ethos to permission, do you beg every day of your life, some asshole for approval?

Is that your walk?

Is that the walk that you do every day?

I want to use two great examples, at least two great examples to me today to illustrate.

Number one, my nephew.

My nephew just finished his 12-year-old baseball season in Little League.

Look, I'm the uncle. Someone's always going to say, you've got a biased opinion. Of course,

that's the way the world works. But my nephew's been a football player for quite a while now,

five, six years. And the videos of him racing up and down the field, beating everybody in 80

yards sprints are quite

impressive.

The kid's a great athlete.

Now, whether that pans out in the future, who the hell knows?

But he just finished his 12-year-old baseball season.

And apparently he did not make the All-Star team, even though he had stats that dwarfed

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