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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 619: Ozan Varol Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6730 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Ozan Varol, a rocket scientist, author and award-winning law professor. His contrarian view show throughout his writings and interviews. He focuses primarily on showing how extraordinary thinking produces extraordinary results. Ozan’s newest books are The Democratic Coup d’État and Comparative Constitutional Law: A Global and Interdisciplinary Approach.

The topic is his book The Democratic Coup d'État.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Extraordinary thinking
  • The Democratic Coup d’État
  • Contrary thinking

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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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 Coval.

0:24.0

Not filtered, raw, honest.

0:27.4

That's my passion.

0:33.3

My guest today is Ozan Veral.

0:36.6

A former rocket scientist turned author, now law professor.

0:43.4

But what I'd love about Ozan, contrarian.

0:48.4

Someone that doesn't go with the herd, or at least doesn't try to go with the herd, tries to get outside the box

0:55.6

to look at things from that alternate perspective. But this is not easy, as this podcast series going back

1:06.6

many, many years can attest to, we are genetically programmed to follow the group. To follow the

1:14.4

lemmings off the cliff, that's what we do. But disruption, finding the place, the place that has not yet

1:24.6

been attacked, so to speak, in the system, in the mass.

1:30.8

That's where the opportunity is.

1:33.8

So as Ozahn says, when you learn how to challenge the status quo, you won't just change

1:39.8

the way you view the world.

1:41.9

You'll be empowered to change the world itself. He is so spot on, so much

1:48.0

of modern life is simply saying, I can do it. If not me, then who? If him, then why not me?

1:56.8

That's the deal. That's what we're all faced with. I hope you enjoy this conversation with

2:03.2

Ozahn, Barack.

2:12.0

Ozan, age 13, I know where you were, just because I've studied up a little bit here. Age 13, where were you?

2:20.3

What was on your mind at age 13? Give me the geographic location and what's on your mind, age 13.

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