Ep. 318: Christopher Chabris Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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My guest today is Christopher Chabris, an American research psychologist, currently Associate Professor of Psychology and co-director of the Neuroscience Program at Union College in Schenectady, New York, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurology at Albany Medical College and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.

The topic is his book The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Witnesses, memory, and the legal system
• Expert witness testimony
• “The play that changed poker”
• Mastery in any field
• The connection between chess and memory
• Chabris’ interaction with Neil deGrasse Tyson, and how memory affects our outlook
• The stock market, prediction, and forecasting
• The importance of confidence with regard to predictions
• Simple rules vs. complex rules
• Oprah Winfrey, Malcolm Gladwell, and intuition
• Memory and the influx of information coming at us

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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