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My guest today is Samuel Wilkinson, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Yale Depression Research Program. His primary research has focused on depression and suicide prevention and has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Drug Abuse, the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

The topic is his book Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply about the Meaning of Our Existence.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Evolution and human nature
• Science and religion
• Purpose and meaning of existence
• Convergent evolution
• Competing dispositions and altruism
• Inheritance of traits, intelligence, and behaviors
• Free will and its significance
• Biological perspective on human behavior
• Importance of family and kin selection in evolution
• A good society and its challenges

Mentions & Resources:

• Samuel Wilkinson
• Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply about the Meaning of Our Existence
• Charles Townes
• Stephen Jay Gould
• Richard Dawkins
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Franks
• M. Scott Peck

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Hi Michael,

I will be honest with you. I didn’t expect to be invited to reply. Most of the time you can’t talk to the person in charge of their content.

So here’s my situation, I am trying to teach my children a process to get us out of poverty. I believe the markets might be the best way to achieve this goal, because the success is based on your work efforts not the color of your skin or access to privilege. I am totally fascinated by your content. I would love to know where you are going to speak next or have an opportunity to listen to some of these incredible people involved in the markets.

I don’t have a lot of capital so I am paper trading and learning. But I’m grinding so I can get started. I work 2 jobs and might have to work 3, but I am determined to make this venture work. Your content makes basic common sense when you look at a price chart and actually see the moves.

I am grateful to you Mike, man I am glad I found you. This is some cool shit.

Trade well my friend,
James B.

Thanks! All the links below + here.

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Nice episode [Ep. 1221]. If you have a link to resources and/or flagship, pass it along. Hope to lock during Q4.

William P.

Links above.

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Sir,

I would really like to be frank. I give you a lot of credit not ripping Professor Assclown a new one. I’ve seen this first hand when I was in grad school ten years ago. This postmodernist […] is completely cult-like. These people just flip figures completely void of reality to support their story. It’s a horrifying religion that has captured academia and holds no truth. Our welfare system combined with our education system is going to send us in the direction of Argentina. Looking at this as a religion and thinking back I can see why Martin Luther said fuck it and translated the bible. The only thing that makes these cultists buckle is truth to fact. This is the number one reason they are against free speech. In reality, it undermines their religion. The only way you could have brought out the light is probably with a four hour interview going over all the figures in their entirety, with help from a polygrapher, and a non captured statistician. These people are professional liars. If I told you all the bullshit they’re pushing in grad school it would blow your mind. I could go on and on but I don’t want to bore you. I hope to do the expat thing myself in the near future. I’m ex military and well traveled having visited 29 countries and counting.

Anyway, please keep up the good work. I really enjoy your podcast.

Respectfully,
Joseph S.

Thanks.

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Hi, Michael. Thanks for keeping this site up and updated. Anything controversial is never easy, even when you know you’re doing the right thing.

I got intro’d to trend following by Matthew Erickson’s book, “Asset Rotation”, and I’m working my way through your “Trend Following” now. First, I have a copy that published in the early 2000s. Do more recent editions address how to tactically survive and potentially defeat a lot of the whipsaw I’m seeing in data since 2012?

Second, has anyone published data on the efficacy of trend following using mutual funds?

Thanks much, and have a great week ahead, sir.

Whipsaws are not new and the only way to avoid them is to not trade. I don’t see anything special about 2012 to now, especially since I have no idea what you are doing or what data you are analyzing. My 5th edition of Trend Following blows away the total content of my 1st edition of Trend Following. 1000s of mutual funds buying and holding will naturally have high correlation, so I don’t see the need or benefit there. Trade the stock indicies in a trend following portfolio and there you go. The same thing.

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Mr. Michael,

Another skullcracker!

Psych is where it’s at in trading.

Thank you for another job well done.

Merry Christmas,
Kevin W.

Welcome!

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