Ep. 537: Isaac Lidsky Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following
Michael Covel
4.6 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Isaac Lidsky. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in mathematics and computer science, was a successful practicing attorney and became the only blind person to have clerked at the U.S. Supreme Court. His story is one of overcoming a rough obstacle. Isaac’s book, “Eyes Wide Open,” is about making the choice to take control of the reality you create for yourself. To choose in every moment who you want to be and how you want to live your life. Holding yourself accountable is the starting point.
The topic is his book Eyes Wide Open: Overcoming Obstacles and Recognizing Opportunities in a World That Can't See Clearly.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Living in the “now”
- Heightened senses
- Luck and skill
- Fear we create
- Entrepreneurship
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. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.5 | My guest today is Isaac Lidski. |
| 0:37.3 | Isaac has a great story. |
| 0:40.0 | As a young guy, living a normal life. |
| 0:43.2 | As an early teenager, he found out due to a rare condition, he would go blind. |
| 0:50.6 | And he did go blind. |
| 0:52.8 | But that has not stopped him at all. |
| 0:56.8 | A graduate of Harvard. |
| 0:59.0 | Degrees in mathematics, computer science, |
| 1:01.8 | once a practicing attorney. |
| 1:03.4 | In fact, he is the only blind person to have ever clerk |
| 1:06.6 | at the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| 1:09.6 | Not only is his story one of overcoming a really rough obstacle, |
| 1:17.1 | but today he's like all of us. |
| 1:21.2 | He's overcome that obstacle, |
| 1:24.1 | but he's also overcome the obstacle of just being a regular person at a regular |
| 1:30.2 | desk job because now he is a full-blown entrepreneur with a great story that you can easily |
| 1:37.7 | find on TED. A wide-ranging conversation motivating as hell. I hope you enjoy my talk with Isaac Lidski. |
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