Ep. 573: Jon Gordon Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Jon Gordon, an author and speaker on leadership, culture, sales, and teamwork. He has worked with numerous athletic organizations, academic institutions, and corporations. His latest book is “The Power of Positive Leadership.” He teaches people how to focus on weeding out the negative and not letting that energy poison the team.

The topics are his books The Power of Positive Leadership: How and Why Positive Leaders Transform Teams and Organizations and Change the World and The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Leadership skills
Energy vampires
Negativity is contagious
Grit is the biggest predictor of success
Overcoming challenges
Pushing forward through adversity

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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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

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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.
0:33.3	My guest today inspires readers.
0:40.4	No doubt about that. He's the author of 17 books, including five bestsellers, his very first one, The Energy Bus. My guest, John Gordon, I can't think of any
0:49.8	cooler way to break into the space that John has broken into and dominated than going down the
0:57.8	sports direction. I'm not giving away any hints yet. But this is an inspiring story.
1:06.6	Inspiring to see John overcome obstacles, to see John push and strive and make it happen.
1:15.4	We can all hope like crazy to look at John's work and say, why not us?
1:24.5	Why not me?
1:25.5	Why not you?
1:31.7	Now before I get into my conversation with John today, one quick reminder. My newest book, Trend Following, How to Make a Fortune in Bull, Bear, and Black Swan
1:38.5	Markets is now available in audiobook. It only took about two months extra time. Don't ask why.
1:47.4	These things happen. But it's out now. It's 34 plus hours. Give me a break. You can drive
1:52.9	across the country listening to that baby. But enough of my book promotion. And onto my guest today,
2:00.4	what a fun conversation. I sincerely
2:03.6	hope you enjoy the perspective of John Gordon.
2:14.7	So, John, listen, back in the day, I had a buddy of mine, and I don't know exactly how he did this,
2:19.9	and I think it was for a Florida State Miami game in Tallahassee. Somehow or another, this guy,
2:25.3	knowing how the system worked, he found his way into the pregame speech that Bobby Bowden
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