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We all have a preferential set of intuitions, feelings, and ideas. Less poetically characterized by the term “bias”. These little quirks in our thinking pose a challenge to our ability to weigh evidence accurately to arrive at truth. Bias is…
I caught myself again yesterday. I was having coffee with an ex-colleague of mine. Back from the phase in my life when I was doing my ‘corporate duty’. I do like to occasionally check in with my ex-colleagues to see…
The other day I was reminiscing about two epiphanies that influenced my choices in life. So back in those days I wanted to be independent. And I figured the best means to independence is money. Not for the sake of…
Being biased brings with it that we don’t think like we think we think. We make illogical decisions. Passive index fund investing via a Regular Savings Plan or Dollar-Cost-Averaging is logically right, right? But emotionally and in terms of common…
There is no denying the fact that our lives are determined by our unconscious beliefs about money. So, what do you really believe when it comes to money? I am convinced that discovering and exploring our general attitude towards money…
I initially wanted to put off writing about this fallacy, but I cannot avoid it. Psychologists use this term to describe the decision to ignore dangerous or negative information by “burying” one’s head in the sand—like an ostrich—and hoping it would disappear. The…
Oops! Despite trying to understand more than 60 cognitive biases by writing about them, I just realized that I have yet to share anything about the “classic”—the Sunk Cost Fallacy. And although I have written about its sister biases Loss and Regret Aversion, they alone leave gaps…
…but before we do that, allow me to elaborate a bit on it. Regression to the Mean (RTM) is the tendency for trends to flip with the passage of time; it’s nature’s way of levelling the playing field. Most things on Earth revert to…
…is themselves. That’s right, the single largest risk to investors is themselves. By that, I, of course, mean the influence of human emotion and psychology in decision making. It seems quite clear to me that humans are uniquely wired incorrectly for long-term…
At the beginning of each year, there’re many pundits, experts, self-proclaimed gurus, and other suspicious characters who’d like to sell you stuff predicting the directions of the Stock Markets. As I personally have ample years of experience in the Stock Markets…