Telling People Not to Panic Isn't Good Enough

I've been with my wife for 17 years. And after all that time I finally figured out something really important when we're fighting – never, never tell her to calm down when she's mad. You see, this is very important because I am almost always the cause of her anger. Telling her to calm down after I made her mad is like shooting someone in the belly and telling them not to bleed. Read on because there's a useful investing analogy somewhere in here….