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🗓️ 28 April 2020
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Why we desire a good story & the effect this has on our investments.
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0:00.0 | Let me read a quote from your latest book, which I find really fascinating, and maybe you can talk to that a little bit more. |
0:12.4 | Goes like this. |
0:13.6 | If this time is different, is the most expensive phrase in investing. |
0:17.6 | I would like to nominate, I don't know, as the most overlooked phrase in investing, |
0:21.7 | with I was wrong as a close second. As is so often the case, the usefulness of these beliefs |
0:28.9 | in an investment context is directly proportional to their behavioral difficulty. Acceptance |
0:36.2 | of uncertainty and a belief in personal fallibility |
0:40.0 | are remunerated precisely because they come so hard to humankind. |
0:46.8 | It is strange to consider that many of the most effective tactics in investing have, |
0:51.8 | I don't know at the core. |
0:54.3 | Passive investing, and maybe I can personally add here, trend following and matter futures, |
0:59.3 | is the embodiment of I don't know investing. |
1:02.7 | I think this is really critical to understand what this really means. |
1:07.5 | Because interestingly enough, one of the key phrases that has really been in our |
1:12.1 | industry for a very long time since the 80s and i think it was a gentleman called larry height that |
1:17.6 | kind of phrased it back then is knowing what you don't know and i think this is this is important |
1:25.1 | but i'd love to hear you're kind of you know, diving a little bit more into this part of your findings. |
1:33.3 | So you mentioned earlier that the human desire for stories. |
1:38.3 | And so for much of human history, that's how we connected. |
1:42.3 | That's how we transmitted information and connected with each other. |
1:46.0 | Research out of Princeton shows that when two people are sitting across from each other, so you and I |
1:51.0 | are having a conversation, if they take a brain scan of each of our brains, they don't look much |
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