Ep. 865: Bruce Daisley Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Bruce Daisley, the host of top business podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat; was Twitter's most senior employee outside of the US in his role of vice president across Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and before that he ran YouTube UK at Google. Bruce's passion for improving work led him to create his podcast where he interviews top business and thought leaders on making work better. This, his first book, was a number-one bestseller in the UK and a bestseller across Europe.
The topic is his book Eat Sleep Work Repeat: 30 Hacks for Bringing Joy to Your Job.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Managing Stress
- Remote Working
- Open Office
- Introverts and extroverts
- Productivity and Creativity
- Laughter
- Workplace Politics
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.
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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| 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. |
| 0:33.4 | Eat, sleep, work, repeat. |
| 0:36.7 | Author, Bruce Daisley, formerly high-level executive at Twitter. |
| 0:42.3 | Bruce sat down to come up with those hacks, those little things or maybe big things that we can change in our lives to make the damn day smoother. To have a better time, to feel better, to look better, |
| 0:59.0 | to be better, to perform better, to find a little more productivity, to laugh a little bit more. |
| 1:06.5 | Because the reality is it's those everyday routines, the simple things that if we've got the right |
| 1:13.6 | toolkit to play with, we can do better. If we got the wrong toolkit, if we have the wrong |
| 1:20.7 | influences in our life, guess what the results are going to be? Not so damn good. Without any further delay, let's jump right into |
| 1:29.6 | my conversation with Bruce Daisley and find out a few things about some of these hacks we can use |
| 1:36.8 | to eat, sleep, work, and repeat the process, and hopefully do it all a little bit better. |
| 1:57.4 | So listen, Bruce, here's where I think we should start. |
| 2:00.0 | I'm looking at this fine book in my hands right now. |
| 2:03.2 | What an interesting time to be helping people to deal with stress and the idea of work. |
| 2:10.7 | So many people are obviously not working right now, but the stress and how to manage either at the point of right now or in the hopefully not too distant |
| 2:20.0 | future, boy, the stress is going to be off the charts, isn't it? That's right. I think the critical |
| 2:25.2 | thing is that more than ever before, we're in a situation where we need to try and understand |
| 2:30.0 | exactly what's happening at work and what the conflicting factors are. I think this is what I was |
| 2:37.3 | particularly curious. I found myself in a more ordinary time, but I found myself really interested |
| 2:44.0 | in the psychology of work, in the impact that work has upon us, whether there was any evidence |
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