Write from the Perspective of Eternity

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Maintaining a long-term perspective is challenging in a short-term oriented world, especially for those providing advice to individual investors. Making more points of contact with the wisdom of past ages can enable people to do so. Quoting Greek and Roman philosophers or thinkers like Spinoza allows for writing not from the perspective of current or past times, but from the perspective of eternity.

WSJ columnist Jason Zweig and I tackle important topics like how to be a smarter investor, filtering out noise, why philosophy and history matters, and his new book, The Devil’s Financial Dictionary.

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