October 10, 2009 at 6:48 pm
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After the tragedy of September 11, 2001, many investors felt it was patriotic to buy stocks and unpatriotic to sell stocks. When the market sold off the first week, many of them came to see patriotic buying of stocks as a character flaw. Investors who sold the first week and avoided losses felt both self-esteem for taking care of themselves and guilt for letting others down. We could debate whether or not buying or selling any investment is or is not a patriotic act. The outcome of that debate will not affect your inventory. Your inventory is about how you feel, not about how others feel or how society indicates you ought to feel. For some investors, patriotic buying of stocks is a character flaw. For other investors, it is a character strength.
The more you write about your part, the more you realize it has little to do with money, and a lot to do with who you are and how you react to other individuals and to humanity. At first, you think your part is about investing, but then you realize it is about what other people invest in and how you respond to that. Your part is about what you think other people will say about your investments. Your part is about your self-image, ego, self-esteem, relationship to the world, and to God, if you believe in God. Investment returns matter, not because of financial insecurity, but because of how they affect your relationships with others.
October 6, 2009 at 11:23 am
Consider numbness when you notice something that you should have reacted to and did not. Marcus felt he should have paid back loans and paid taxes, but he had no emotional response that told him to take the proper action. Numbness can lead to an inability to sense the boundaries of your comfort zone.
Self-centeredness is a common defect. This is the belief that you invest in isolation, that your investments do not affect other people. The opposite is true. All your investments affect other people. All members of your family, your workplace, and your communities are affected to greater and lesser degrees by all your investments.