Ep. 651: David Burkus Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is David Burkus, the author of “Friend of a Friend: Understanding the Hidden Networks That Can Transform Your Life and Your Career.” David has delivered keynotes to leaders of Fortune 500 companies and future leaders of the United States Naval Academy. His TED talk has been viewed almost 2 million times and he is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review. What if the advice we have all heard about networking is wrong? David outlines the right way to network in the modern age.
The topic is his book Friend of a Friend: Understanding the Hidden Networks That Can Transform Your Life and Your Career.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Curiosity conversations
- Network science
- Self observation
- Dormant ties
- Robust networks
- Network science
- The majority illusion
- The spread of Facebook
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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. |
| 0:20.9 | I am your host, Michael Covel. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
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| 1:04.5 | My guest today is David Burkis. This is David's second appearance on the show. Today we discuss his newest book, Friend of a Friend, understanding the hidden networks that can transform your |
| 1:10.1 | life and your career. |
| 1:12.4 | And he posits the simple question, what if the advice we've heard all about networking was wrong? |
| 1:18.9 | I know one thing, my networking path, completely non-traditional, and I'm happy to see that many of the |
| 1:25.1 | things that I've learned along the way, David has codified. |
| 1:29.2 | He has put into words that memorialize many of the instincts that I've had. |
| 1:34.1 | Look, I'm not saying that I'm perfect or all that or anything like that, but David's done a really |
| 1:39.0 | great job of outlining networking for the modern age. |
| 1:45.5 | This really is that new look at the art and science of networking. |
| 1:50.2 | How do you meet people? |
| 1:51.8 | How do you meet the right people? |
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