Tyler Gardner
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5,337 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6d ago
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Part seven, the practice of doing nothing.
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I want to close with something that I think gets to the heart of why this episode exists.
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The single most important skill in retirement investing is the skill of not acting.
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The skill of seeing the screen, registering the number, feeling the feeling, and then doing absolutely nothing.
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The financial industry will sell you a thousand products designed to help you to act.
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There is no product that I know of that is designed to help you not to act.
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Not acting is the whole game, and it's the one thing nobody gets paid to teach.
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There's a concept from the Stoic tradition, Marcus Aurelius wrote about it constantly, called prosoke, which roughly translates as attention and watchfulness.
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The Stoics believed the goal was not to suppress your emotions, but to watch them, accurately, as if they were weather passing through.
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You feel the fear.
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You notice the fear.
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doesn't mean you act on the fear.
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You watch it move through you the way you'd watch a storm move across the lake.
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That is almost word for word the posture you need in retirement when the market turns.
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You will feel afraid.
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That fear is appropriate because you've spent 40 years building this thing and now the thing is shrinking and your nervous system is doing what nervous systems do.
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The work is not to make that fear go away.
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The work is to notice it,
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accurately and to not let it move your hand toward that sell button.
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I think the Stoics would have made excellent investors.
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