We often assume that other people can read our minds — that our feelings, intentions, and inner states are transparent to those around us. But research suggests we dramatically overestimate how much others know about what we're thinking and feeling, while simultaneously underestimating how much our own silence shapes the way others perceive us.
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Stephen Jay Gould — The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
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
The second it was in my system, I had a brief period where I felt a strange combination of horrible things. One being, Oh my god, I love this. I remember it. This works pretty fucking well. I can't say that there's no part of me that doesn't like this. And then of course there is a part of me that doesn't like it, because I felt guilty for liking it, and I hated that feeling.
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