The Psychology of Money - An Investment Manager\'s Guide to Beating the Market

26 THE INVESTOR SENSING (OBSERVATION)/INTUITING (CREATIVITY): WHAT PEOPLE PAY ATTENTION TO This second polarity describes what w ...

Self-Diagnosis 27 opposite extreme. Her species had intuitive powers of empathy, enabling her to read people’s feelings. This po ...

28 THE INVESTOR tional valuation methods. Intuitive types (creators), in contrast, love playing with new ideas and theoretical a ...

Self-Diagnosis 29 Thinking (T) Feeling (F) Logical system Value system Justice Mercy Critique Compliment Principles Harmony Two ...

30 THE INVESTOR “You may say anything that you like about mankind, but don’t say it is rational.” (Dostoyevsky) “I never met a m ...

Self-Diagnosis 31 ration, the president jumped from her chair and said, “Do any of you NOT plan your weekends?” She was astonish ...

32 THE INVESTOR his billfold so that all the presidents face the same direction. I know, it’s not wrong, it’s just so... so anal ...

Self-Diagnosis 33 attitude toward money itself. Judgers tend to be conservative and like saving; perceivers are more risk-loving ...

34 THE INVESTOR FIGURE 4.2 The “flexible” office (P preference). Got them? If not, you can go to any number of Myers-Briggs Webs ...

Strengthening One’s Abilities 35 35 CHAPTER 5 Strengthening One’s Abilities Drop and Give Me 50 The nature of man is always the ...

36 THE INVESTOR ness in his “mental game” is or how to strengthen and overcome it. That’s the value of the MBTI. It helps us get ...

Strengthening One’s Abilities 37 to have a natural preference for extraversion, as seen in his con- stant traveling and visits w ...

38 THE INVESTOR and were seated in separate rooms. In one room, the number 1435 was displayed on the blackboard. In the second r ...

Strengthening One’s Abilities 39 Why did I make that call? Looking back at it now, I know it was my own preference for introvers ...

40 THE INVESTOR posedly unable to remember his own phone number, and—when asked about it—would simply reply that there was no po ...

Strengthening One’s Abilities 41 their ideas. The point here is to exercise your ability to see patterns and discern general the ...

42 THE INVESTOR creative solutions, so he devised the following strategy. He would sit in a comfortable chair with rocks in his ...

Strengthening One’s Abilities 43 tioned earlier, makes the point. He had bought a large position in an initial public offering ( ...

44 THE INVESTOR simply pick out the facts. Then try to logically explain the flow of causation in the story. What was the chain ...

Strengthening One’s Abilities 45 thing that I’ll never do.... It’s like having a religion” (Wall Street Journal, Jan. 3, 2000). ...