The Emotionally Intelligent Investor

By Ravee Mehta,

Book cover of The Emotionally Intelligent Investor: How self-awareness, empathy and intuition drive performance

Book description

The Emotionally Intelligent Investor challenges several long-held assumptions and beliefs, by asserting that a good investment approach starts with introspection. Too many investment gurus tell you to emulate their techniques despite the fact that you may have very different personality traits, motivations and biases. Would Shaquille O’Neal tell a short…

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1 author picked The Emotionally Intelligent Investor as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This could be better written (too many page-length paragraphs), but it earns its place on this list because the topic is important and I don’t know of any better treatment.

Many investment pundits advocate rigid self-control: they say you should try to suppress all emotion in investment decision-making – which is probably infeasible, and in any case undesirable. This book suggests a higher aspiration: aim to have the right emotions, those which are accurately calibrated to the contours of truth.

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