When Everything Is Falling Apart (Life Is Like An ETF)
Capitalism.com with Ryan Daniel Moran
Capitalism.com
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🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
When life feels uncertain and everything is falling apart... this is what to do when you don't know what to do.
Life is like an ETF; there are good things and bad things in your life "portfolio." We don't notice our improvements, and we are freaked out by our setbacks. Still, things tend to go up over time. The trick is staying the game long enough to let compounding returns kick in.
When everything is falling apart, we prepare for the next opportunity... and the opportunity of a lifetime tends to come around at least once a year, as long as we are ready for them.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome back to capitalism.com. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm still Brian Daniel Moran. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey, have you noticed lately that the world seems kind of uncertain? |
| 0:16.0 | Have you noticed that? It's not just me? |
| 0:19.0 | I feel like the world hasn't been particularly certain in like 10 years. |
| 0:24.1 | You remember 10 years ago? |
| 0:26.3 | Like Trump was still president? |
| 0:28.8 | We were still freaked out about the economy. |
| 0:32.2 | We were still all kinds of divided. |
| 0:35.8 | You remember that? |
| 0:37.4 | It's funny how the world feels more uncertain than ever |
| 0:40.9 | and yet we go back 10 years. We were kind of arguing and worried about the same exact things. |
| 0:48.5 | That's not the point of today. Today I kind of wanted to call a couple of things out because everyone that I know is going through it right now. |
| 0:57.2 | Every entrepreneur feels like they're just keeping their head above water, that they are worried about some new thing, whether it is war in the Middle East or it is market volatility or it is AI threatening to put |
| 1:14.7 | all of us out of business, it feels like we are facing existential threats as a society. |
| 1:23.8 | And we could have a discussion about whether or not that's the case. |
| 1:28.9 | And that would be a really interesting conversation. |
| 1:30.8 | But it's not the conversation that I want to have today. |
| 1:34.7 | Instead, I just want to talk about how we get through these uncertain times. |
| 1:41.3 | Because it is very easy at just about any time to notice the highlights of other |
| 1:47.9 | people who are winning at life or that we think are winning at life. And we see their highlight |
| 1:53.3 | reels on social media. And we believe this lie that we are the only ones who are freaked out. And the reality is from what I can |
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