Ep. 541: Vanessa Van Edwards Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Vanessa Van Edwards, author of Captivate. Vanessa jokes that she is a recovering awkward person and learned in college that she could apply systems thinking to people skills. Once she started making formulas around communicating with others, she found there was more people like her.

The topic is her book Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Bringing the unconscious to the conscious
Confidence and lack of confidence
Introverts, extroverts and ambiverts
First impressions
Conversational spark
What makes a great presentation

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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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.
0:33.1	My guest today is Vanessa Van Edwards.
0:37.1	And she's an expert.
0:39.7	She's done the homework in an area where every last one of us needs to do better.
0:48.2	How to captivate, how to be more charismatic, how to walk into that cold room and be at peace, to make progress,
0:59.2	to meet people. There is some serious neuroscience behind all of her work, some serious
1:08.0	experimentation, some serious surveying and testing.
1:13.2	She brings a very science-based approach to attraction.
1:19.0	I mean, some of the topic areas that she goes into are things that we all must master
1:24.5	if we want to have a normal life.
1:28.2	How do you interpret body language?
1:31.1	The psychology of jealousy.
1:33.8	How to persuade.
1:36.5	I hope you enjoy this conversation with Vanessa Van Edwards.
1:53.4	Very few people, if any of us have any idea, any damn idea, how anyone works, do we?
1:54.6	That's true.
2:02.1	I mean, literally, I mean, we just, we go through life, we think we know, but the reality is what we're really thinking about ourselves, how we think, and we perhaps imagine incorrectly, obviously, that
2:10.8	everyone is thinking like us.
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