Author: Michael Covel

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My guest today is Michael Gervais, a prominent sports psychologist and high-performance coach known for his work with elite athletes, performers, and organizations. He co-founded “Compete to Create,” specializing in mindset training and performance psychology. Gervais has worked with NFL, NBA, and Olympic athletes, as well as business leaders and artists, helping them optimize their performance. His podcast, “Finding Mastery,” explores success principles and has made him a respected authority on resilience, mindfulness, mental toughness, and peak performance psychology, blending scientific insights with practical strategies for excellence.

The topic is his book The First Rule of Mastery: Stop Worrying About What People Think of You.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Mastery and personal development
• Overcoming FOPO (Fear of People’s Opinions)
• Authenticity and performance
• Importance of finding the right community
• Value of exploration
• Health and well-being

Mentions & Resources:

• Michael Gervais
• The First Rule of Mastery: Stop Worrying About What People Think of You
• Finding Mastery
• Barry Bonds
• Ricky Fowler
• Lenny Dykstra
• David Foster Wallace

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Hi Mike,

I do enjoy your podcast very much. I don’t know how you research all the material, speak to your guests, record, and get the podcast out all in record time!

I’ve just ordered The Complete TurtleTrader and will read next week. Want to read more about you meeting [name] in St. Thomas as you said in podcast 135. He has definitely lost his way!

I’ve just been approved for futures trading and going through these contracts, they appear to be large. With a small account like mine, 20k trying to keep bet sizes at 2%, would I not get stopped out just on the volatility if I want my stop a decent distance away.

Just wondering if your system will account for small accounts like mine.

Last step, just saving up to apply for your flagship system.

Always appreciate your time.

Lee T.

Thank you! To your point on capital issues: read here.

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Hi Michael,

I’ve been listening to your podcast for several months now and wanted to thank you.

I’m a 20-year-old in a 58-year-old body. I work out every day and enjoy listening to you at the gym.

Been trading stocks since I walked into a brokerage in the 70’s and set up an account in elementary school. Only to do the math and figure out I just paid 60% in commissions.

Anyways, love your podcast and dream of being in [Asia] instead of my 3rd wife in CA.

Thank you,
Michael P.

Thanks!

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I got two of your books! And Market Wizards.

Thanks so very much again Michael! Will read up and too funny in St Michaels MD on trip with my family. I can do this! And my performance is going up finally just learning the basic rules as I have made major mistakes after a year or so by not setting those stops and buying risky under 5$ ones. I have yet to begin as I’m not buying the markets indices etc yet. Just stocks using price action.

Thanks again! I have so much to learn. Slow steady like a turtle.

Do check all links below too.

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How can you move forward immediately to Trend Following profits? My books and my Flagship Course and Systems are trusted options by clients in 70+ countries.

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• Research
• Markets to Trade
• Crisis Times
• Trading Technology
• About Us

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Michael,

My biggest challenge is that I am in the industry and I am flooded with opinions, charts, sellside research and twitter traders data. Without irony some of the twitter traders are actually the greatest value add. I’ve read Trend Following and I am in the middle of Turtles and Trend Commandments. I have witnessed a “small time” trend follower make over $10m in a year on commodities/crypto proxies and it blew my mind. I could have mirrored easily but I just piddle paddled in day trading Covid trash names handing back half of my moves most times.

My biggest questions are and always will be “What is the trend?” and “How do I recognize a true trend?” I anticipate yearly macro stories but miss the “trend”. I have a good return but not great. Overall, I need rules and discipline to reign in my bullshit.

I’m a big fan of the books and I also have Turtle on Audible for my commutes to Palo Alto (when I show up).

P.S. – I love the based twitter posts 🙂

Thank you.

Sean B.

Welcome! My books dive into your desire and my courses do too.

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Michael,

Just listened to the recent post with Christopher Chabris and agree with most of what he said, but the devil is always in the details and how much can we trust the data that’s available.

For example, I found it interesting that he believes the COVID shots were highly effective – not sure what data he’s basing that on. While Pfizer’s initial clinical trial data did show a 95% relative risk reduction for severe COVID, the absolute risk reduction, which is what actually matters and is how the data is supposed to be presented, showed a less than 0.8% reduction in severe COVID.

That’s assuming the data Pfizer supplied isn’t manipulated, and we are seeing in the Pfizer documents that the FDA was forced to make public that there were more all-cause deaths in the treatment arm than the placebo arm.

Curious to know if you have read “Turtles All the Way Down.” Different from your turtles but calls into question the science, using science and data, backing many of our beliefs about vaccines in general.

Been listening [on your podcast] for about 7 or 8 years now. Keep up the great work!

Dirk

Thanks!

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How can you move forward immediately to Trend Following profits? My books and my Flagship Course and Systems are trusted options by clients in 70+ countries.

Also jump in:

• Trend Following Podcast Guests
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Performance
• Research
• Markets to Trade
• Crisis Times
• Trading Technology
• About Us

Trend Following is for beginners, students and pros in all countries. This is not day trading 5-minute bars, prediction or analyzing fundamentals–it’s Trend Following.