Trend Following With Michael Covel

My guest today is Michael Mauboussin, an author ("More Than You Know", "Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition"), investment strategist in the financial services industry, professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Business, and board of trustees at the Santa Fe Institute (an independent, nonprofit theoretical research institute).  The topic is his book The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Luck and skill, how they cross over and play off each other, and how both of those factors have played a part in both Covel and Mauboussin's careers How Mauboussin came to start working on "The Success Equation" How losing on purpose can define skill How sports can provide great examples of what Mauboussin contends regarding skill and luck The human desire and emotional need to tell stories, and how that plays into peoples' difficulty untangling skill and luck Stephen Jay Gould's notion of the .400 hitter in