Jim Boulden: Money is a way of measuring with currency how you feel about yourself. The human mind is incredibly good at besides pattern recognition, is protecting itself from admitting that we were wrong. All those things make it hard for us to learn from our mistakes. We'll tie our brains in incredibly complicated and clever knots to avoid admitting that we're wrong.
In this episode of Infinite Loops we spoke with Jason Zweig of The Wall Street Journal, where he writes his famous The Intelligent Investor column. Jason is also the author of Your Money and Your Brain, and the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham''s The Intelligent Investor. In this discussion we cover:
- The power of writing to learn.
- Why humans never learn from their mistakes.
- Jason’s path into markets out of college.
- The lessons we can learn from the past.
- And much more
Follow Jason on Twitter (https://twitter.com/jasonzweigwsj) and check out his website (https://jasonzweig.com).