Leonard Mlodinow - How To Harness Your Emotions To Become A Better Investor | #381

The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

The Idea Farm

Business, Investing, Management

4.7 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In episode 381, we welcome our guest, Leonard Mlodinow, a theoretical physicist and best-selling author of a number of books, including The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives and Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking, which releases next week! In today’s episode, we look at the relationship between our emotions and decisions. Leonard explains how emotions can make us emphasize or de-emphasize certain beliefs and even completely ignore certain data points. Then we dive into how emotions impact our investment decisions. We hear what studies say about how the best traders handle their emotions and talk about the role of social and emotional contagion on financial markets. ----- Follow Meb on Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube For detailed show notes, click here To learn more about our funds and follow us, subscribe to our mailing list or visit us at cambriainvestments.com ----- Today’s episode is sponsored by The Idea Farm. The Idea Farm gives you access to over $100,000 worth of investing research, the kind usually read by only the world’s largest institutions, funds, and money managers. Join today and get access to quarterly CAPE ratios, an excel quant backtester and the entire research library. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mepp Faber Show, where the focus is on helping you grow and preserve your wealth.
0:11.0	Join us as we discuss the craft of investing and
0:13.5	uncover new and profitable ideas all to help you grow wealthier and wiser.
0:17.2	Better investing starts here.
0:18.8	Meath Baber is the co-founder and chief investment officer at Cambria Investment Management.
0:23.4	Did it industry regulations, he will not discuss any of Cambria's funds on this podcast.
0:27.2	All opinions expressed by podcast participants are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion
0:31.1	of Cambria Investment Management or its affiliates.
0:33.4	For more information, visit cambria Investments.com.
0:39.7	Happy New Year everybody.
0:40.7	We got a great show.
0:42.1	Our guest is a theoretical physicist who
0:44.2	studied under Richard Feynman and Stephen Hawking it's also a best-selling
0:47.9	author of a number of books including the drunkards walk and emotional how
0:52.2	feelings shape our thinking which comes out next week.
0:55.3	In today's show we look at the relationship between our emotions and decisions.
0:59.1	Our guests explains how emotions can make us emphasize or de-emphasize certain beliefs and even completely ignore
1:04.3	certain data points.
1:05.8	Then we dive into how emotions impact our investment decisions.
1:09.0	We hear what studies say about how the best traders handle their emotions and talk about the role of social and emotional
1:14.3	contagion on financial markets.
1:16.4	American Farmland is disappearing at an alarming rate.
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