Ep. 658: Matthew Walker Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Matthew Walker, a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Founder and Director of the Center for Human Sleep Science. His new book is “Why We Sleep.” Matthew’s mission is to reunite humanity with sleep. He learned insufficient sleep is linked to ALL of the top killers in civilized countries. The average adult only sleeps 6 hours and 31 minutes. The disease and suffering that is present because of lack of sleep has become his motivator to instill change. So how much sleep do we need? If you are not getting at least 7-9 hours of sleep a day, you are not acting at optimal performance. Most who think they can operate at full capacity with 6 hours of sleep have become numb to the state they live in. They have forgotten, or perhaps have never known, what their optimal performance looks and feels like.

The topic is sleep science.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Sleep deprivation
Alcohol and sleep
Marijuana and sleep
Insomnia
Dream sleep
School start times
Daylight savings time
Reproductive health and the relationship with sleep

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.

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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.
0:27.3	That's my passion.
0:33.5	I'm not in college.
0:35.4	I'm not at university.
0:36.6	I'm not in grad school.
0:39.0	I'm not pursuing my PhD.'m not at university. I'm not in grad school. I'm not pursuing my PhD.
0:47.7	But it sort of feels like I am. But here's the tricky part. I'm not in some niche, right?
0:54.5	I get to talk to everyone. It's the coolest damn thing. Now here's a little secret about how I pursue my process.
0:59.1	I think everybody I talk to is connected in some way, at least in my maniacal mind.
1:05.7	I think it's all connected because it starts with skepticism.
1:11.0	You start with skepticism, you go down a path, and you figure out an aha moment.
1:18.3	And then you're left with something really cool that's useful for everyone regardless of their endeavor in life.
1:27.3	Oh, you're a trader, you're a trend following trader, you're a short-term trader,
1:30.7	you're an entrepreneur, you're a business person, you're a doctor, you're a lawyer.
1:34.0	Hey, guess what?
1:34.9	Oh, I forgot one also.
1:35.9	You're a student?
1:37.3	You're just a regular person.
1:38.5	You're working at Starbucks.
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