Ep. 988: Charles Chaffin Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Charles R. Chaffin. He writes and speaks on a variety of topics related to cognition, attention, and human behavior. His research focuses on multitasking and its relationship to human performance in a variety settings.

The topic is Numb: How the Information Age Dulls Our Senses and How We Can Get them Back.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Impact of the Information
Facebook Platform
Platform and Publisher
The Attention Economy
Maximizers vs Satisficers
The Effects of Pornography
Getting Likes on Social Media
Attention and Distraction

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	Come on, we all know the information age, a phone in our hand attached to our hip, it's dumbing us
0:40.9	down. We got too much crap coming at us from every direction, literally every direction,
0:47.8	every feeling, every synapse is being stimulated at all times. Why is it being stimulated? Who benefits from the stimulation?
0:58.1	My guest today, Charles Chafin, has a lot of great ideas, research, and insights about this very topic.
1:05.1	His new book, NUM, How the Information Age Dulls Our Senses and How We Can Get Them Back. Now, as a side tangent, I'm not and how we can get them back.
1:11.8	Now, as a side tangent, I'm not so sure we can get them back.
1:14.8	I think we're a part of the Matrix already.
1:16.8	But Charles is the optimist.
1:18.3	He thinks we can get it back.
1:20.0	And damn it, I want to be optimistic too.
1:22.8	It's just going to be a long, slow, rough ride.
1:30.9	But I give him a lot of credit because he realizes,
1:38.8	and his work shows this, we are being distracted, distracted in all kinds of ways, distractions that primarily benefit certain groups that are making money off your distraction.
1:44.2	So take Charles' wisdom to heart, turn off some of the distractions, let a few of the tech
1:49.5	billionaires not make as much money, and get a little bit of your life back.
1:54.7	Without any further delay, let's jump right into my conversation with Charles Chafin
1:59.2	and talk about this unfortunate topic of how
2:02.6	the information age is dulling us and perhaps even dumbing us down. I hope you enjoy this
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