Ep. 785: Daniel Cable Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Dan Cable, a Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School, and he believes he has the answer, or at least the tools, to equip people that want more out of their nine-to-five existence. His book Alive at Work shows many of the reasons for unhappiness at work. Organizations aren’t encouraging us to explore and learn, so we often find ourselves only partially engaged in work. The book is filled with real-world examples and outlines how both employees and leaders can ignite the curiosity and passion that drives us to achieve.

The topic is his book The Neuroscience of Helping Your People Love What They Do.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

One of our fundamental desires as humans is our need to feel useful. The process of creating something or building a skill is at the center of a fulfilling life. This is problematic when you consider the world we live in today. So many jobs are characterized by menial tasks, endless meetings, and little tangible impact. How can we redefine the way we get things done to better reflect our basic needs?

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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 Coval.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.3	I think you will agree with me.
0:35.7	My guest today brings a really nice energy. This was a really
0:41.6	enjoyable chat. Now, don't get me wrong, I love all of my conversations. But there's
0:48.2	something about Daniel Cable, just very pleasant. Now, hiding behind that pleasant exterior is somebody who has done a fair amount of work
0:58.6	in the field of neuroscience.
1:03.0	Daniel is currently a professor of organizational behavior at the London Business School,
1:07.8	and he has been ranked among the top 25 most influential management scholars across the
1:14.5	globe. Today we discuss his work, his new book, Alive at Work, the neuroscience of helping your
1:21.6	people love what they do. Think of it this way. Poll after poll has confirmed that a huge number of people, workers,
1:30.1	are disengaged from their work. What's happening? Why do people hate work? And then the question
1:37.0	becomes, how the heck do we fix it all? Daniel does a great job of getting behind the scenes with research and great writing
1:47.1	to show that surprising secret for how we can all help restore our own zest for work, our own
1:56.1	zest for life, and to help others restore their zest too. Because you see, this disengagement,
2:05.0	it's not just a motivational problem. It's biological. We, us humans, we are designed to
2:14.7	explore. We are designed to find new.
2:18.4	That's what we want.
2:19.6	We are happiest when we have that.
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