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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 773: Esther Wojcicki Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6730 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Esther Wojcicki—“Woj” to her many friends and admirers. She's famous for three things: teaching a high school class that has changed the lives of thousands of kids, inspiring Silicon Valley legends like Steve Jobs, and raising three daughters who have each become famously successful. Her husband is Stanford University professor of physics Stanley Wojcicki. They have three daughters: Susan (CEO of YouTube), Janet, a Fulbright-winning anthropologist, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and researcher, and Anne (co-founder of 23andMe).

The topic is her book How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Woj's secret to raising successful people: Trust, respect, independence, collaboration, and kindness

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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/

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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 Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.

0:27.4

That's my passion.

0:33.2

I must admit, I was not familiar with my guest today before I was prepping for this conversation.

0:42.6

Call me stupid. Call me not so bright. Call me out to lunch. Call me that I've been living outside

0:49.1

the States for too long. Either way, no excuse. I should have known about my guest well in advance of prepping

0:58.1

for this conversation. She is Esther Wajitsky and her book, How to Raise Successful People,

1:06.7

Simple Lessons for Radical Results. You just got to love the word radical.

1:12.8

When someone puts radical in the title, I pay attention.

1:16.8

But I also pay attention to their backgrounds.

1:21.0

Now, Esther teaches journalism at Palo Alto High School.

1:25.5

Oh, you don't think that's impressive.

1:29.6

Well, that's been her choice.

1:37.8

Now, her husband is a quite acclaimed physicist. Her three daughters, which really form the inspiration of how she put this book together, her three daughters happened to be the CEO of

1:43.9

YouTube, the CEO of 23 and me,

1:47.2

and her other daughter is a top medical researcher. That is quite the accomplished list

1:54.2

of children. Wow. That is one great job. So what we should all be asking in an age of helicopter parents,

2:05.4

in an age of kids kept inside,

2:08.8

some kind of padded clothing where they can't hurt themselves,

2:12.9

what can Esther teach us?

2:16.2

Well, the short answer is a lot.

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