John Dinsmore

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186 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 3 Aug

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Hidden Brain · Making the Most of Your Mistakes · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

And so then we went to slightly better bass.

And when he got his first job, and so musicians always want to get, I think, new gear, I have advised him, look,

Used gear is typically as good as new.

And so I've really tried to help them focus on value rather than, you know, brand or flash or image or that sort of thing of really getting the most for your money.

Oh, well, I will say after our original episode aired, I received email from people who said that they enjoyed listening to the episode because they had had similar experiences and they've been carrying lots of shame around.

The truth is, even the most successful people have

some financial decisions they'd like back if they could i owned a house in washington dc and i think i sold it about five minutes before the real estate boom happened in the mid 2000s and you know where i had made a tidy like modest profit if i had held on to it for a year or two i would have just made an insane amount of money and it took me several years to actually

kind of get comfortable with it, even though we all just do the best we can with the information we have at the time.

And none of us bat a thousand, you know, the most successful you can think of, you know, name your billionaire.

I mean, they still have a number of, they've made a number of wrong calls in their time, even if on balance they've done really, really well.

So the challenge is to keep moving forward and, and understand that, um,

We're all going to miss a few along the way.

Yeah, I think that's pretty fair.

Human beings in general are pretty uncomfortable with the subject of luck.

We tend to think of psychologists allude to something called attribution theory.

So for what I do as a teacher, the joke is if a student gets an A, they will say that they earned an A. But if

if they get an F, they'll say that the professor gave them an F, right?

And so there's some loaded language in there that reflects some sense of self-concept, right?

And we do this with financial decision-making too.

So we may punish ourselves too much for something that didn't work out great, or we may think that we're geniuses when actually, you know what?

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