This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

I am your host, Michael Coval.

Not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

I decided I was going to write a book.

No book writing experience, no long-form writing experience at all.

But I had had a website up for many years until 2002.

And around that time, I started hearing criticism, critics.

And I felt like, you know what?

Okay.

All of these run-the-mouth critics, I'll put a book out.

Now, at the time, not having any experience, I said to myself, well, I've got all this great content.

I've got all these other ideas.

I'll work with a writer. I actually in 2002 hired a

writer and I said, hey, here's all this content, and I was busy on my business. I said,

here's all this content, go put a draft together for me. I spent a bunch of money over the

course of 2002. At the end of 2002, this manuscript was delivered.

At that moment in time, I was like, oh, man, shit.

This is not going to work.

This is not what I want to say.

This is not me.

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