4.6 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Please enjoy my monologue Follow Your Effort Not Your Passion with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.
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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, not filtered, raw, honest. |
0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
0:33.3 | I want to talk about focus today. |
0:36.9 | What do we focus on? Humanity today focuses on generally what we're |
0:48.3 | told. What do the biggest players tell us, the biggest media players? |
0:55.1 | What do they tell us? |
0:57.7 | That's where we focus. |
1:00.3 | Now, of course, there can be people like me, little guys on the outside, essentially little networks who get people to focus on different things to be more skeptical, to think |
1:14.2 | about the scientific method, to go down a different path. |
1:18.2 | But I'm competing against those big monoliths. |
1:22.9 | I'm competing against those big networks. |
1:26.5 | But do you ever really think about focus, what you are focusing on? |
1:33.3 | For example, we just had in America the state of the union address by the president. |
1:41.9 | Everyone focused on this. |
1:45.9 | Stories constantly. |
1:48.6 | What people said, what they were wearing, did people scow, were they happy, did they clap? |
1:56.9 | This big show, this big show of nonsense, because when it comes down to it, everyone knows |
2:04.7 | there's two sides in America and the two sides are smaller government, bigger government. |
2:12.8 | And the leaders that represent those sides might not represent those two ideals directly or accurately |
2:19.5 | at all times. But that is the divide. More government, less government. Everything else is a show. |
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