This Is Your Brain On Stocks

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3 Responses to “This is your Brain; This is your Brain on Equities” This is your Brain on Stocks | The Big Picture Says: July 29th, 2011 at 8:31 am

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carleric Says: July 29th, 2011 at 10:22 am

I thought slide 22 pretty much sums it up…job well done

Bruman Says: July 29th, 2011 at 10:48 am

Slide 5 reminded me of a facebook post I made on monday. I’m not sure if I intended it as humor, or insight:

“Confidence is so important in the business world. But to be supremely confident, it helps to be a little bit dumb. In business, there is a kind of sweet spot in smarts: one needs to be smart enough to sound intelligent, but too dumb to know the dozens of ways you could be wrong. Then you can be confident.”

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