“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty” Theodore Roosevelt

In this episode I talk about the psychology of investing because I believe investing is 99.9% a mind game.

“The investor’s chief problem—and his worst enemy—is likely to be himself. In the end, how your investments behave is much less important than how you behave.”

A highly regarded study led by mathematical psychologist Amos Tversky and Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman found that investors feel the pain of a loss twice as much as the joy of an equivalent gain. 

They call this 'Loss Aversion', and it means that investors hate losing money far more than they enjoy gaining money.

Fidelity has over $10 trillion AUM and they noted an internal performance review on accounts to determine which type of investors received the best returns between 2003 and 2013

The customer account audit revealed that the best investors are either inactive or dead.

IN SUMMARY

I’m going to borrow from Rudyard Kipling’s Poem IF

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs

If you can hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says: ‘Hold on!’

If you can have belief when there seems no logical reason to believe

And hold conviction when others are quitting

If you can be calm when others are anxious

If you can treat uncertainty and fear as your friends

Then you will become a successful investor.

Welcome to the The SharePickers Podcast with Justin Waite. I am a passionate investor who wants to share what I have learned in my investing journey, as it's transformed my life.

This is a podcast about helping you build wealth through investing. There's only two realistic ways to build wealth: own a successful business or own a share of a successful business.

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