This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, best-selling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. I am your host, Michael Covell,

not filtered, raw, honest. That's my passion. So let me tell you, first off, I want to read a quote from Malcolm Gladwell, the author.

My goal of the day is to fully listen to my critics, even if they may not know exactly what they're critical of.

Love it.

I love it.

So, you know, I also want to kind of just add some clarity to, you know, dusting the dirt off my

shoulders, so to speak. And I was looking up the exact definition. And there's a couple

different ways it could be interpreted. There's an interesting donkey parable about being buried

in a well about dusting the dirt off your shoulders.

But I think the one that I like, the one version that seemed to make the most sense for me,

was, you know, as more people hate on you or become envious or angry at you for whatever reason,

the dust accumulates into dirt.

And soon, you've got to dust that dirt off your shoulders.

So that's my kind of my setup here, and you'll see where I'm going with this.

So yesterday I find an article, JZ, kind of slamming Occupy Wall Street.

You know, I went to Occupy Wall Street events here on the West

Coast, and I saw a bunch of people that were seemingly lost, and they did not know what they

were really doing or what they were complaining about. A lot of them had not showered in a long time,

and the first book that I saw at their book-selling event was the Communist Manifesto in Spanish.

And now amazingly, well, maybe not amazing, but the press gave a lot of these folks a green light

that somehow or another they were on to a good path. And, you know, eventually we saw what happened.

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