Archive for the 'Psychology' Category
Investor A.D.D.
February 9th, 2010From 1940 to 1980, the average holding period that investors held on to stocks was as high as 10 years to as low as 4 years. Then in the 1980s, the holding period started to fall to as low as 1.5 years in the late 1980s, before a brief bounce to two years in the […]
Seth Klarman Harvard Interview
January 18th, 2010Seth Klarman is one of the greatest investors ever, in my humble opinion. Check out his interview with Harvard Business School:
Seth Klarman Harvard interview
The benefits of walking a dog
December 17th, 2009On a rather stressful day, I really enjoyed reading this article on the benefits of walking a dog. Here is a snippet on how walking a dog helped people in an assisted living home:
To the surprise of the researchers, the dog walkers showed a big improvement in fitness, while the human walkers began making excuses […]
Shmuley Boteach on Tiger Woods and Infidelity
December 15th, 2009“IN TRUTH, men have affairs not for physical reasons but for emotional ones. They cheat not out of a sense of confidence but out of a state of brokenness. Not out of a sense of how desirable they are but out of a sense of what failures they are. And this is especially true of […]
Alice Schroeder Interview
December 4th, 2009Jeff Matthews just posted a lengthy, yet excellent interview with Alice Schroeder, who wrote the book Snowball about Warren Buffett.
Jeff Matthews Interview
The Truth About Grit
August 3rd, 2009I enjoyed this article on how grit leads more to success than talent or intelligence.
The Truth About Grit
Hunches
July 28th, 2009This is a very fascinating article in the New York Times on hunches and the brain. Check it out:
Hunches and the brain
How David Beats Goliath
May 15th, 2009Please go read this article in the New Yorker by Malcolm Gladwell. It is about how underdogs can win. It is simply fantastic and has many lessons that anyone, especially investors can use.
Malcolm Gladwell - David vs. Goliath
Mea Culpa
May 14th, 2009I’ve been meaning to write this for awhile, but I think now is a good time to write this.
I have been very wrong the past year. I’ve been wrong on specific stocks and the direction of the market. I’ve lost my investors and others lots of money despite my hard work and research. After 10 […]
The Attraction of Gold
April 22nd, 2009Really interesting blog post about the attraction of gold: Attraction of gold