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Hello, the Smart Money Tree podcast listeners.

Welcome to this week's show.

My name's Kirk Chisholm and I will be your host.

So today we're talking with Stan title bomb.

Hey, Stan, how's it going?

I'm doing fine, Kirk. Thank you.

Thank you for reaching out to me for an interview, which might be a little out of the mainstream of the interviews you usually do. I really appreciate you having on the show. And before we kind of dive

in, Stan's topic is very apt for what's going on in the world and we really wanted to dive in.

But before I get into that, Stan, tell us a little bit about your background.

I'm a clinical psychologist. I got my PhD a number of years ago. Over the years, many of my clients

came to me because of their errors in judgment or poor decisions that were affecting their personal relationships. And in addition to

that, it also seemed to happen with many clients who were concerned about stock market investments

and why they weren't doing better in that realm of their lives. And what were the factors that were

penalizing them from being more

successful. The other factor, which was also very meaningful for me in bringing me to this

junction, was examining my own history in stock market investing, which included a lot of

underperformance and errors of judgment and blind spots.

There's a lot of things when you get into psychology. Investing is primarily psychology, right?

Yes, you have to do the hard work, but there's so much of it that psychology. In your experience,

what are some of the psychological issues that come up when it most commonly affect investors?

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