Ep. 623: Benjamin Hardy Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Ben Hardy. He started blogging in May of 2015 and in just under three years has gained over 300,000 email subscribers and become the most followed writer on Medium.com. Ben is also just a few months away from his PHD in organizational psychology at age 29. His three foster children, as well as personal experiences, inspired his new book.

The topic is his book Willpower Doesn’t Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Western and eastern philosophy
Getting out of your environment
Sacred space
Morning routines
Squeeze page

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/

You can watch a free video here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/

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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

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.
0:33.2	As we continue to jump into 2018,
0:42.8	wow, 2018. What the hell? Where does 20 years go?
0:55.9	A quick reminder, go to trendfollowing.com. In the footer of trendfowing.com, you will see five columns of links, 17 links each column.
1:05.4	Now go read those five columns of 17 links each and try, try to send me an email to say,
1:07.4	you did not learn something.
1:09.4	I'm waiting for it.
1:12.8	Tell me you did not find something new. Tell me you did not find an aha moment. Every one of those links completely redone. And also the NAF bar at TrendFollowing.com,
1:22.5	the upper part of TrendFollowing.com. Go check out those links. The events link, the zero sum link, the markets
1:30.4	link, the charts link, all of this updated in the last month or so. Absolutely over the top
1:39.6	trend following education. Go dig in and learn something and give me your feedback.
1:45.3	I want to hear your feedback.
1:47.7	Now that we've got the Coval advertisements out of the way, let me jump into my guest.
1:52.4	Benjamin Hardy, husband, foster father, PhD candidate and organizational psychology.
1:58.4	Here's the key thing.
1:59.2	Over 300,000 people receive his weekly newsletter.
2:05.0	He has a 170,000 followers on Medium.
2:10.4	Oh yeah, he started like two years ago.
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