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 Coval.

Not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

I invited another dead guest onto this week's show.

Alan Watts, the Eastern philosopher, one of my favorites, a man who can wander and wind

down many paths, and he doesn't necessarily reach only logical conclusions, but this man, his ability to bring out food for thought to make

you think, he's right there. For a little background, for those of you that don't know, Alan Watts,

introduced Eastern traditions, Buddhism to the West. His video on money I have featured on this podcast many times, because it never gets old.

It's 100% brilliant.

Is money the root of all evil?

Is money the goal?

What about confusing money with happiness?

This sure happens a lot, doesn't it?

Watts has some thoughts there too as well.

Making mistakes, are you so afraid to make a mistake that you don't get anything done?

Watts is fantastic at laying out why that is just a massive mistake in your life.

The massive mistake in your life is if you're afraid to make mistakes, you never get anything done.

You never learn a damn thing.

But before I get into Watts, let me tell you why this particular excerpt with Watts, and this is decades decades ago why this came to be on this week's monologue. I was in Malibu, California recently. With my fiance, driving down from San Francisco,

we stopped at a seafood restaurant. I don't recall the name.

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