Ep. 503: John Miller Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is John Miller, the author of “QBQ: The Question behind the Question”, is on today’s podcast. John’s message is all about person responsibility. His dad was the wrestling coach at Cornell University and he taught John the foundation for his way of thinking early on. He started in the training business selling leadership and sales management training in 1986.

The topics are his books QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life and The QBQ! Workbook: A Hands-on Tool for Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Staying accountable for your actions
Social media bullying and accountability
Stress is a choice
Asking yourself the right questions to stay accountable
Entitlement

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.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.2	My guest today has over one million books in print.
0:38.2	John Miller, author of the classic bestseller,
0:43.3	QBQ, The Question Behind the Question, Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life.
0:51.3	I'm very fortunate to have John today.
0:53.8	Let's jump right in to the question behind the question.
1:05.5	I noticed in your background, your father, a wrestling coach.
1:10.0	I grew up with three guys that were wrestlers,
1:12.2	brothers. I think two of them were state champions, so I got beat up as a guy who didn't wrestle
1:17.7	a lot when I was a kid, so I kind of understand the wrestling mentality a little bit.
1:22.0	I would love for you, look, I've seen the one great line that you say, you know, look,
1:25.0	you've got to be good enough to beat the ref. But take me back in time as we're going to talk personal responsibility. To have a father
1:32.2	as a wrestling coach, I mean, this is personal responsibility 101. That's true, Michael, thank you,
1:38.0	and thank you for letting me visit with you today. Absolutely. When you're out on the wrestling mat,
1:42.3	you cannot hide behind the team.
1:45.5	The importance of recognizing still in this day of teamwork, the power of one, and not hiding
1:52.3	behind the team. And I didn't know I was learning that, of course, in the 70s when I was
1:56.5	out on the mat. But if you, it's a really sport where you can kind of, you can win that day and your team
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