Ep. 603: Frank Ostaseski Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Frank Ostaseski. He has dedicated his life to helping others. He is co-founder of the Zen Hospice Project and founder of the Metta Institute. Frank is a Buddhist teacher, international lecturer and expert on the end-of-life experience. His work spans from helping the homeless to the wealthy to the young and to the elderly have an easier transition to the other side. Frank loves what he does because of how “real” the experience of death is. His new book is The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully.

The topic is his book The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

The territory of mystery
The inevitability and intimacy of dying
How saying goodbye at a party relates to saying goodbye when dying
Importance of human connection
Don’t wait
The reality of constant change
Openness during the travel experience
Trusting our intuition
Common humanity
Resting in the middle of activity
Discovering the truth
Stoicism

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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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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.
0:33.1	My guest today, a little something different for you, my loyal audience. It might sound
0:41.5	different when you first hear what I'm going to say today, but it's not really different.
0:49.6	It's in the same headspace that I always stay on all of my podcast episodes.
0:56.7	My guest today is Frank Osteskeskesi.
0:59.7	He's dedicated his life to service.
1:02.5	He's the co-founder of the Zen Hospice Project and the founder of the Meta Institute.
1:08.9	He's a Buddhist teacher, international lecturer, and a leading
1:13.1	voice in contemplative end-of-life care. Basically, and Frank might kill me for saying it like this,
1:22.9	but Frank is an expert in dying. Well, let me say it a better way.
1:28.2	Frank is an expert in taking the experience of dying,
1:33.7	experiencing that firsthand in a way that almost none of us,
1:38.3	unless we are medical caregivers, can understand.
1:41.3	But Frank has taken that experience, the death experience, being there with people
1:46.5	when they pass and taking a step back so all of us can learn. What can we learn from the death
1:56.6	experience? Because, hey, no matter what we talk about in terms of politics or this or that
2:02.7	or our callings in life, death, at least until the Donald Hoffman's of the world and the
2:11.7	Robin Hansons of the world figure out how to scan our minds and put it on a hard drive,
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