When the stock market crashes, I stay remarkably calm. But when my three-year-old has a rough morning before daycare? Not so much.
In this episode, I explore why I’ve learned to accept uncertainty in investing while still fighting it in everyday life—and how that mismatch creates unnecessary suffering.
We’ll look at a simple teaching from Buddhist monk Kusala Bhikshu: we’re just one of a thousand contributing factors behind anything that happens. It’s a perspective that can make us calmer investors, more forgiving parents, and kinder to ourselves when life doesn’t go according to plan.
Along the way, I share a story from a chaotic daycare morning, explain why passive investing is really an embrace of uncertainty, and offer one simple question you can ask the next time everything seems to be going sideways.
Listen if: You tend to blame yourself when things go wrong, struggle to let go of what you can’t control, or want to feel a little steadier through the inevitable ups and downs of markets—and life.
Thanks for listening!
– The Buddh-ish Investor
Read the Substack post that inspired this podcast episode: Why I Feel Bad Every Time I Check My Portfolio
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