Ep. 80: Robert Greene Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2012
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Robert Greene, the bestselling author of the classic book, "The 48 Laws of Power", in addition to other bestsellers such as "The Art of Seduction", "The 33 Strategies of War", and "The 50th Law" with musician and entrepreneur, 50 Cent.
The topic is his book Mastery.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- The influence "The 48 Laws of Power" had on Covel's own writing
- Using the 48 Laws as a defense strategy rather than as a cutthroat offense
- Some of Greene's early influences that led him into his writing career
- Using Zen Buddhism and meditation as a tool to gain perspective and focus
- The importance of using your unique life experiences in your career to create an irreplaceable style
- Embracing opportunity
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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. |
| 0:27.3 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.1 | So today on the show I have Robert Green. |
| 0:35.6 | Robert is a best-selling author. |
| 0:37.4 | He is famous for the 48 |
| 0:39.6 | Laws of Power. A really cool book that I bought many moons ago that I'm going to tell him in a second |
| 0:45.3 | how it inspired me. But he's also written The Art of Seduction, the 33 Strategies of War, |
| 0:50.9 | and the 50th Law with 50 Cent. He's got a new book coming out called mastery robert thank you |
| 0:56.6 | for joining me well thank you very much for having me michael my pleasure so just to kind of fill |
| 1:01.4 | you in and i was telling you a little bit earlier um we are talking today because i had a chance to meet |
| 1:06.6 | uh ryan holiday summer of 11 and ryan has given me a lot of good insights and good advice and |
| 1:14.3 | I know you guys are close associates. So I have to, this roundabout small world of ours. |
| 1:21.9 | Yeah, well, Ryan was my sort of apprentice. I met him years ago. He's when he was about 19, 20 years old. |
| 1:31.4 | And he started, he impressed me with, with a couple of jobs that I gave him. And then I had him do my |
| 1:38.1 | research on the 50th law and on this new book. And then, you know, got him a job at American Apparel where he's had a |
| 1:46.6 | lot of responsibility running a marketing department there. And basically now kind of helped him |
| 1:52.9 | with his writing career. And I keep telling people, it's pretty soon I'm going to be working for |
| 1:58.1 | Ryan. I'm going to be his apprentice because he's, he's rising so quickly in the world. Yeah, I know that feeling. And I always, I tell people that |
| 2:06.5 | when I'm talking about him, I was like, how the heck is he still under 30? That's not fair. |
| 2:11.3 | Well, I think he's 25, you know. Right. That's not fair. Well, listen, let me let me let you establish a couple things. I tell you what, let me tell you something about myself real quick. So I write trading books specifically about a strategy called trend following. And it's amazing the parallels and a lot of the work that you do. But when I first did my book, I was a no-name author in 2004. My first book sold over 100,000 copies in the trading space, |
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