Ep. 561: Jeff Goins Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Jeff Goins, the author of “Real Artists Don’t Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age.” Jeff dismantles the myth that being creative is a hindrance to success and reveals how an artistic temperament is an advantage in the competitive marketplace. Mindset, technique and understanding the right perspective is key, and Jeff helps get you there.

The topic is his book Real Artists Don’t Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Apprenticeship
What is your life’s work
Being an artist in today’s world
Owning the title that you want for yourself
You are what you say you are

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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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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.
0:33.5	My guest today is Jeff Goens, his new book,
0:37.1	Real Artists Don't Starve, Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age.
0:44.6	Jeff dismantles the myth that being creative is a hindrance to success by revealing how an artistic temperament is in fact a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
0:57.2	Look, this whole starving artist mantra has been pushed forever.
1:04.2	It's nonsense.
1:06.4	Mindset, technique, understand the right direction, understand the right perspective.
1:14.7	Jeff Goens goes there. I hope you enjoy this conversation today because I sure as hell did.
1:39.0	So Jeff, I must tell you, anybody in this day and age who can get a Johnny Cash quote into their book, we're already friends.
1:42.2	Love that guy.
1:48.1	You know, I live in Nashville, and he made his home here for many years, so I wanted to give an homage to Johnny.
2:10.7	Yeah, you know, you talk about stealing from people. No one's been able to steal from him, really. He's kind of still the original man in black. I think once he was gone, I don't know if there will be to be another one, like quite like him. It's such an interesting sound, you know, so interesting that people didn't really know what to do with it, you know, especially at a time when, you know, all this was becoming a big hit and Johnny was completely different. And yet, as we find with so many creative people, he wasn't setting out to do something original. He was just doing the best he could
2:18.3	with what he had and, you know, and stealing from his influences and what came out was something
2:24.0	that, you know, we still aren't able to quite replicate today. You can go find his, I'm sure
2:28.9	you've seen them, the YouTube clips from the 50s, his first versions of like, I Walk the Line
2:33.2	and stuff. And it's just
2:34.4	amazing. He's in his 20s and he kind of looks like he's 50 then. He was an old soul with an
2:40.8	old voice. Yeah. It was great, though. I love his stuff. So listen, here's the thing that I go
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