Trend Following With Michael Covel

My guest today is Cal Newport, an American non-fiction author and associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University. The topic is passion. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Alan Watts Why following your passion isn't such a great idea from Newport's perspective The notion of deliberate practice and the 10000 hour rule, falling back on simplistic strategies that fail Passion following success as the true gauge Misconceptions about passion Thinking of passion as a side-effect of running your career in the right way Overcoming difficulty as a necessary step in the process The work and analysis Newport has done looking at top chess players The systematic aspect of gaining skill and its ties to passion Anxiety and failure Jump in! --- 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 al