The Psychological Dimensions of Investing

This chapter explores the impact of behavioral finance on investment decisions, focusing on principles introduced by Daniel Kahneman. It examines how emotions, loss aversion, and negative media can affect risk tolerance and uncover overlooked investment opportunities.

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On today’s episode, Clay and Kyle dive into Robert Hagstrom’s book — Investing: The Last Liberal Art. Charlie Munger is famous for popularizing the use of mental models and pulling key ideas from related fields and implementing them to the world of investing. In today’s episode, that’s exactly what we do, starting with the fields of physics, biology, sociology, and psychology.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00 - Intro

01:27 - How learning new mental models can help us be better investors.

10:49 - Concepts in physics that we can carry over to investing.

25:35 - Lessons we can learn from evolution and complex adaptive systems.

42:00 - What leads to a stock oscillating above and below the intrinsic value.

54:15 - The primary psychological biases as lead to investment mistakes.

01:05:43 - Why Lumine’s incentive structure is a structure worth studying.

And so much more!

Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences.

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