Managing Market Anxiety
Jordi emphasizes the importance of minimizing mistakes and managing anxiety in investment decisions. He highlights the need to focus on present realities rather than getting caught up in predictions about the future, which often lead to unnecessary stress. Drawing parallels to baseball, he reassures that drawdowns are a normal part of the investment journey, encouraging a mindset of resilience and comfort during challenging times.In this clip
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Capital Allocators – Inside the Institutional Investment Industry
Jordi Visser – Analytics and AQ at Weiss (Capital Allocators, EP.221)
Related Questions
Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas, stating that first you need to extinguish the fear or trauma by retelling the narrative. The whole point of that is to diminish the physiological response, right? If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if a person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning?
For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, and every time they see the spider or get activated through some trigger, they immediately use breathwork to calm their body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?