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The investor's chief problem — and even his worst enemy — is likely to be himself. In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it is a weighing machine. The man who cannot master his emotions is ill-suited to profit from the investment process.
— Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor (1949)

1mo ago

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.

2mo ago

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

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Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity

Although they stopped explicitly looking and found ways to navigate on their own, their autonomic nervous system never stopped needing, and longing for, co-regulation. Because we are physiologies first and psychologies second, but we are also storytelling and sensemaking creatures, our minds naturally create emotional narratives out of these unconscious vagal states — stories that, if we are not careful enough and conscious enough, may come to subsume reality.

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Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness

If you can acknowledge it and you can relax with it a little bit, very often it shortens its duration.

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