Ep. 557: Eric Barker Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Eric Barker, the founder of the blog, Barking Up The Wrong Tree. He provides science based answers and expert insight on how to be awesome in life. His newest work is “Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong”.

The topic is his book Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

The entrepreneurial feeling
What makes valedictorians succeed
Filter leaders
Obstacles for creative people
Structure of story telling
Failure tolerance
Creating meaningful mentorships

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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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Transcript

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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, Eric Barker,
0:35.9	creator of the blog, barkinging Up the Wrong Tree.
0:39.8	He's all about science-based answers and expert insight on how to be awesome at life.
0:46.9	Now, before you think that's trite or cliche, far from it, awesome stuff about success and getting ahead.
0:55.6	His newest work,
0:57.1	Barking Up the Wrong Tree,
0:58.6	the surprising science
1:00.3	behind why everything you know about success
1:03.5	is mostly wrong.
1:06.4	A great book,
1:08.2	great insights.
1:09.5	I hope you enjoy this conversation with Eric Barker.
1:20.1	So, Eric, I think you made this book for me.
1:23.0	At least that's my personal feeling as I'm reading.
1:26.8	Because everything that I've instinctively felt as someone who has been involved in commerce for 20 years, most of that time online, in fact, all of that time online, you just touch on all these instinctive issues that I've had about success or felt about success, things that I've
1:45.9	perhaps experienced with lots of, you know, scars on the back. But you are finding the science
1:53.2	that backs up the intuition that I never, you know, you go through life with nobody talks about
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