Ben Carlson

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

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Stock Club · #315: How to Invest Through Booms, Busts & Bubbles (w/ Ben Carlson) · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

But yeah, you're right.

Individuals, your only benchmark is, are you on track to achieving your financial goals?

Jason Zweig told this story once where he went and interviewed all these retirees down in this gated community in Boca in Florida.

And he asked one of the guys, he said, you made it on this nice golf course, surely you've created some wealth for yourself.

He said, in your retirement fund, did you outperform the S&P 500?

And the guy says, I don't care if I outperform the S&P 500, I ended up in Boca.

I achieved my goal, and that's the thing, you don't have to benchmark yourself against these, especially over the short-term, because that can just drive you insane.

Yeah, I think there are certain investors out there who want everyone to be like a robot.

You have to follow this exact process and be long-term and just have your blinders on and don't do anything else.

But I think some people, whether it's an entertainment thing or they just want to scratch an itch, they need a behavioral release valve to take part of your portfolio and have a sidecar.

Have it be, I'm going to speculate, I'm going to trade, I'm going to try to time the market, I'm going to buy crypto, I'm going to jump in and out, I'm going to trade options.

Whatever it is that you find interesting.

As long as you size it correctly, I think it can be a useful thing.

There's this old Roman army dictum that,

Action removes fear.

And for a lot of people, they need to feel like they're doing something to show, okay, if I do something here that proves that I will be okay.

Even if it's an illusion of control, they need to do something.

So I think if you take 10% of your portfolio and say, this is my GoNuts Fund account, I think that's okay if it allows you to leave the other 90% kind of alone and have a more long-term track.

Then I think it can make sense.

And one of the things I think that can do for you is it also gives you like a benchmark of, man, it kind of proves you how hard it is.

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