Ep. 737: Ethan Kross Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Ethan Kross, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. His research seeks to “Understand factors enabling people to adaptively regulate triggered impulses and emotions that undermine their goals and compromise their health.” He wants to resolve a key paradox in coping literature by finding insights and translating those insights to the rest of the world.

The topic is Emotion and Self Control Lab.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Thinking objectively
Passive and interactive activities on social media
Experian sampling
Regulation on social media
LeBron James move from the Cavaliers
Self talk
Dealing with problems under stressed.

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.
0:21.0	I am your host, Michael Coval.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.2	Think about this headline.
0:36.2	Facebook use predicts declines in happiness new study finds.
0:43.1	Well, guess what?
0:44.3	It probably will not surprise you that one of the authors of that new study is my guest today, Ethan Cross.
0:52.8	Let me quote a line from Ethan, which really sums up what's going on here.
0:59.3	On the surface, Facebook provides an invaluable resource for fulfilling the basic human need for
1:05.3	social connection. But rather than enhanced well-being, we found that Facebook use predicts the opposite result.
1:13.9	It undermines it.
1:16.4	Ethan is a social psychologist at the University of Michigan.
1:19.4	He is dug in deep as to how these types of platforms are affecting us.
1:26.7	What they are doing to us, us Homo sapiens.
1:32.3	I agree with him right out of the gate.
1:34.8	There is good and there is bad.
1:37.4	And we need to start to think about the bad.
1:40.5	If we don't, generations of kids are going to be raised as freaking zombies
1:46.4	and those zombies
1:48.9	are going to have some very poor
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