Ep. 1278: Jeff Karp Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Jeff Karp, a Canadian biomedical engineer working as a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the principal faculty at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Affiliate Faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through the Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. In 2008, he was listed as one of the top innovators. In 2011, he received Young Investigator award from the Society for Biomaterials, and the Champion in Health Care Innovation.

The topic is his book LIT: Life Ignition Tools: Use Nature's Playbook to Energize Your Brain, Spark Ideas, and Ignite Action.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Personal growth and overcoming obstacles
Brain's ability to adapt and learn, particularly in individuals with learning differences
Connection between physical activity, brain function, and emotional well-being
Activation energy in achieving goals
Incremental progress
Importance of patterns and habits
Neurodiversity and curiosity
Dealing with failure and maximizing momentum

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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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

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.
0:21.1	I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.3	My guest today is a biomedical engineering professor at both Harvard and MIT.
0:39.7	He has started 12 companies.
0:42.5	Very interesting technology.
0:45.5	His companies have developed technologies that conceal holes inside a beating heart,
0:50.3	a nasal spray that neutralizes pathogens,
0:53.3	smart needles that can automatically stop when they reach
0:56.1	their target. This is some very serious homework. But he has taken all of his experiences and reduced
1:04.1	them to an understanding, a playbook, so to speak, that we can all learn from. He calls these life
1:10.7	ignition tools, the idea being to use
1:14.0	nature's playbook to energize your brain, spark ideas, and ignite action. We all need that.
1:21.4	I'm pretty good at it, but I need the reminders. I need new ideas. I'm not afraid of learning
1:27.4	something new. So without any
1:29.6	further setup for me, no more delays. Let's jump right into my guest today, Jeff Karp, and discuss
1:37.2	life ignition tools. I hope you enjoy.
1:57.6	When I look at your bio, I think you're my first, in a decade plus of doing a podcast,
2:02.9	my first biomedical engineering professor at Harvard, at MIT, people listening are probably going to be thinking you might get a kick out where I'm going to go with
2:05.7	this initial intro, but people might be hearing that initially thinking, oh, that's past my pay grade.
2:11.3	But here I am making notes to myself about you as a young man, attention span problems, anxious kid, called a troublemaker.
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