Ep. 471: Emma Seppala Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following
Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2016
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Emma Seppala, the author of "The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success." She is the Associate Director for the Center of Compassion at Stanford University. Emma's work isn't based on theories or common knowledge, there is a tremendous amount of neuroscience backing her work.
The topic is her book The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Benefits of happiness
- Stresses in life
- Controlling your mind
- Happiness in college
- Cultivating resilience
- Tapping into the opposite of fight or flight response
- Impact of different breathing techniques
- Living in the moment of now
- Authenticity
- The flow state
- Activating creativity
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. |
| 0:03.5 | And if you would like to support this transmission even more and boost your trading account, |
| 0:10.1 | go to trendfollowing.com slash now. |
| 0:16.1 | And without any further delay, on to today's show. |
| 0:19.7 | Thank you. And without any further delay, on to today's show. |
| 0:30.2 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:39.8 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, best-selling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:48.5 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. That's my passion. |
| 0:55.5 | My guest today is Emma Sopola. |
| 1:04.2 | She is the associate director of the Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. |
| 1:13.6 | Her new book, The Happiness Track, How to Apply the science of happiness to accelerate your success. |
| 1:22.7 | Now, before you think for a second that this is just some self-help that you already understand, |
| 1:33.4 | not so fast, there is a tremendous amount of science, neuroscience behind Emma's work. I hope you enjoy this conversation with Emma Sopoulon. |
| 1:43.2 | So Emma, I have to say, I love having you on because you just add to my list. |
| 1:48.8 | I feel like a guy who is going down the path of collecting the hardest working, brightest |
| 1:54.6 | people associated with psychology across the world. |
| 1:59.1 | And I don't know if you've seen some of the folks that have |
| 2:00.8 | appeared in my show. If not, a lot of them were mentioned in your book. But I just, I love this |
| 2:05.7 | path. It's kind of like a side gig for me. I'm not so sure how it happened. But I appreciate you |
| 2:10.6 | for adding to the list. Oh, I'm honored to be part of the list. Your newest work, the happiness track, I mean, this is really what everyone's about. |
| 2:22.4 | I mean, we say we've got to go do the work and we've got to do this and we've got to do that. |
| 2:27.3 | But really, it comes down to happiness. |
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