Ep. 547: Erik Wahl Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Erik Wahl, the author of “The Spark and The Grind,” “Unthink,” and “Unchain the Elephant.” Starting from an early age Erik was never encouraged in the arts but rather encouraged in his reading, writing and athletics. He believed that if he got straight A’s he would be successful later on in life. Things generally worked out for him–until the Dot-com bubble hit. He was devastated and realized he needed to figure out a new way to live.

The topics are his books The Spark and the Grind: Ignite the Power of Disciplined Creativity, Unthink: Rediscover Your Creative Genius and Unchain the Elephant: Reframe Your Thinking to Unleash Your Potential.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Dot-com bubble
2008 crisis
Routine and structure
Misconceptions of overnight success
Embracing the grind
Mental agility

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.

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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 brings something very different to my podcast.
0:37.8	My first graffiti artist, a speed painter, author, motivational speaker, entrepreneur, Eric Wall.
0:47.2	His newest work is what we dig into today, the spark and the grind.
0:53.2	Trust me.
0:54.6	Just for your own creative smack in the head,
0:59.3	after you listen to this podcast,
1:01.6	go take a look at some of the videos of Eric on stage,
1:06.3	what he is doing in terms of presentation.
1:09.4	We are all being forced to raise our game once we're
1:13.7	exposed to Eric's work. I hope you enjoy this conversation with Eric Wall.
1:26.8	So Eric, there's this great documentary that I've seen a couple times.
1:30.6	It's a Pink Floyd documentary.
1:32.2	It's about making the dark side of the moon.
1:35.1	And Roger Waters is just so reflective.
1:37.2	He's so great in there.
1:38.7	And he starts talking about the song, Brain Damage.
1:41.3	And everyone will recognize the lyric.
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