Scott Nations

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Prof G Markets · Your Brain is the Worst Investor in the Room — ft. Scott Nations · 16 Jan 2026 podcast

If they buy Tesla stock, then, you know, maybe it's the Peter Lynch thing from so many decades ago.

You know, it's what I'm buying, what I know.

Well, you don't really know, but you like the story and that's fine.

And so you buy the stock.

One thing that's so difficult about markets is about investing.

I mean, those people who are buying Tesla stock because they like the story, because they like Elon Musk, they want to feel close to him, which I think is definitely true.

And I think it is a problem, but they've been rewarded at the same time.

They've done pretty well.

If you were a big fan of Elon Musk, and then it turns out a lot of people are a big fan of Elon Musk, even if that is the primary force driving the valuation of the company, you

I'll get hate for saying that, but imagine it is, you're still being rewarded.

And I guess this is the thing that I struggle with markets is it's all stories in a lot of ways.

I mean, stories are what drive markets.

Stories are what drive valuation.

I mean, there's obviously fundamentals too, but increasingly stories seem to be what determine price.

And so it sounds like

part of the idea of eliminating your biases is to eliminate your susceptibility to stories.

But at the same time, that's the whole ballgame.

So how do you think about these concepts?

How do you think about the difference between, I guess, narrative versus numbers?

Which wins in which situations?

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