Ben Carlson

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1,555 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 11 Jun

Ben Carlson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And then when she did get back in, she tried to time the market four more times after that.

And it was wrong every time.

So sometimes the worst thing that can happen to you is you're right about the timing once.

It just adds so much psychological warfare to the investing game of trying to think, well, when should I buy back in?

Should I wait for the market to crash?

What if the market gets away from me?

There's so much uncertainty that it introduces, and it just makes it so much more psychologically challenging.

If you don't have some sort of rules or guidelines to guide your actions there, I just think you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

So I think it's how you deal with losses.

Daniel Kahneman did a bunch of research on this.

And he found the idea that losses sting twice as bad as gains feel good.

He didn't even need to do the research because I explained this to my children.

We're all Michigan fans in my house.

It's great when the team wins in football or basketball or whatever.

But when they lose, my kids are like distraught.

I tell them, just so you know, the losses always hurts more.

You feel more.

So it's kind of an intuitive thing.

feeling.

That's why there tends to be more volatility in bear markets or market downtrends.

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