How Do I Control My Emotions as an Investor?

Your Money Guide on the Side

Tyler Gardner

How To, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education, Investing

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

And in case you missed it, check out last week's episode of Your Money Guide on the Side where we answer the question, Why a Podcast? In this episode, I do my best to touch on the absolute musts of investing and controlling our emotions. Not only controlling our emotions, but knowing our emotions and our reactions to market volatility first-hand through experience. I attempt to highlight the importance of thinking slightly differently and distantly about the markets and taking a walk when we need to escape from the relentless noise that is encouraging us to panic and make choices that we will, ultimately, regret when the waters calm.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. This is Tyler Gardner, welcoming you to another episode of your Money Guide on the Side, where it is my job to simplify what seems complex, add nuance to what seems simple, and learn from and alongside some of the brightest minds in money, finance, and investing. So let's get started and get you one step closer to where you need to be.
0:21.7	Welcome to another episode of your money guide on the side.
0:25.1	I'm excited to dive into today's topic that tends to make headlines, even though I hate
0:30.0	the fact that it does, nearly every single day.
0:33.0	Stock market corrections or crashes.
0:35.3	If you're an investor or if you're simply a sentient being who has
0:38.7	access to any type of daily media, chances are you've experienced the stomach drop moment of
0:44.1	seeing red flash across the screen. Or at the very least, you've heard countless talking heads
0:49.7	anticipate or prophesies that regardless of where the markets currently are, or how the economy is
0:55.5	holding up, doomsday is near, and we better all respond accordingly by being officially terrified
1:00.3	and panic selling as many assets as we can before it's too late. I wanted to touch on this today
1:05.4	because there are very few channels or outlets devoted entirely to talking through these concepts in a calm and
1:12.1	rational manner. Most likely, because nothing sells quite as well as someone telling you that the
1:17.6	world is officially coming to an end. But we will take our time today and we will take the opposition,
1:24.4	my friends, and explore how daily market fluctuations, even when going the wrong
1:29.9	direction, are not the financial disaster that we've often been told they are. In fact, when we keep
1:36.8	our long-term goals in mind and our heads-ons straight, they can actually be one of the most
1:42.0	beneficial moments along our path to creating lasting long-term wealth.
1:46.9	I'm going to unpack in no particular order five reasons why daily stock market corrections are not the bad news that you've been told they are.
1:55.7	And although I never want to see my personal assets worth less than what they are today, nor do I wish that upon any of you.
2:01.1	I do want us all to take a step closer to where we need to be by putting this endless noise
2:07.0	in perspective. First, for what it is, noise. Noise for which the talking heads of the world
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