Ep. 501: Roger Housden Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Roger Housden, an author, speaker, and writing guide. He writes for “living and writing wild.” He has authored 22 books and has been featured everywhere from the New York Times to the LA Times. His latest book is titled, “Dropping the Struggle.”

The topic is his book Dropping the Struggle: 7 Ways to Love the Life you Have.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Reflective contemplation
The moment of now
The fantasy of control
Imperfections with love
Buddhist culture
Individuality in western culture

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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	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.
0:33.1	My guest today is Roger Housden.
0:35.9	Author, speaker, writing guide. Books for Living and Writing Wild
0:41.5	as he describes it. The author of 22 books, Roger's work has been featured everywhere from the
0:48.7	New York Times to the L.A. Times. His newest work is dropping the struggle. And I must say it's one of those great reminders for me
0:58.8	about the moment of right now. If there's any great lesson that I've picked up in the last 15 years,
1:06.7	it is that, the moment of right now. That's all we've got. We don't have anything else. Look, I'm not perfect about the moment of right now that's all we've got we don't have anything else look i'm not
1:13.7	perfect about the moment of right now i can always get better about appreciating and staying only in
1:19.4	the moment of all we have which is now because there is no past and there is no future we're not
1:27.1	guaranteed of the future.
1:28.9	The past is gone.
1:30.7	So I appreciate greatly Roger's perspective in calming me down, bringing me back to the only thing that's true right now.
1:42.8	I hope you enjoy this conversation with Roger
1:45.3	Housden.
1:54.7	So, Roger, the newest work is called dropping the struggle.
1:58.5	Typically, with my conversations, I will leave for the very end where
2:02.6	an author can tell a little bit more about their book, where to buy it, etc. But for your title,
2:08.5	it's such an engaging title for so many people in so many different walks of life to hear a title
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