Doing well with money has little to do with how smart you are and a lot to do with how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach - Deepstash
Doing well with money has little to do with how smart you are and a lot to do with how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach

Doing well with money has little to do with how smart you are and a lot to do with how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach

  • Financial outcomes are driven by luck, independent of intelligence and effort.
  • Financial success is not hard science. It’s a soft skill, where how you behave is more important than what you know.
  • To grasp why people bury themselves in debt you don’t need to study interest rates; you need to study the history of greed, insecurity, and optimism. To get why investors sell out at the bottom of a bear market you don’t need to study the math of expected future returns; you need to think about the agony of looking at your family and wondering if your investments are imperiling their future.

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