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Interesting analysis of fear/investing
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HoosierLars Jun 12 2009, 12:32 PM Post #1
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I found it in another message board, and don't know the source.


"Fear is an immensely powerful force… Scientists who have studied the brain function have found that the amygdala, the part of the brain that controls fear, responds faster than the parts of the brain that handle cognitive functions."

"The emotional brain can be triggered by a walnut-sized structure called the amygdala. If the amygdala senses a threat, it reacts instantaneously, signaling crisis and setting off emotional alarms in the limbic system. In an emotionally charged situation, the limbic system usually wins.

"As a primitive tool of survival, emotional impulses from the limbic system impel a desire among individuals to seek signals from others in matters of knowledge and behavior and therefore to align their feelings and convictions with those of the group. The desire to belong to and be accepted by the group is particularly powerful in intensely emotional social settings, when it can overwhelm the higher brain functions.

"In a realm such as investing, where so few are knowledgeable…the tendency toward dependence is pervasive. Trends…are steered not by the rational decisions of individual minds but by the peculiar collective sensibilities of the herd. Wall Street certainly shares aspects of a crowd… Most people get virtually all of their ideas about financial markets from other people, through newspapers, television, tipsters and analysts, without checking a thing. This dependence is nearly universal, even among long-term investors... [who] .... are driven to follow the herd because they do not have firsthand knowledge adequate to form an independent conviction, which makes them seek wisdom in numbers. The unconscious says: You have too little basis upon which to exercise reason; your only alternative is to assume that the herd knows where it’s going."
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I found it in another message board, and don't know the source.
You're cheating on us???
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The body knows what fighters don't: how to protect itself. A neck can only twist so far. Twist it just a hair more and the body says, "Hey, I'll take it from here because you obviously don't know what you're doing... Lie down now, rest, and we'll talk about this when you regain your senses." It's called the knockout mechanism.
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I found it in another message board, and don't know the source.
You're cheating on us???
Yeah, I took Brum's poll pretty hard. :D
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I found it in another message board, and don't know the source.
You're cheating on us???
Yeah, I took Brum's poll pretty hard. :D
My pole may have been hard, but I didn't put it anywhere near you.
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That's what she said?
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I found it in another message board, and don't know the source.
You're cheating on us???
Yeah, I took Brum's poll pretty hard. :D
I believe this one sentence should be hall of fame material!
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The body knows what fighters don't: how to protect itself. A neck can only twist so far. Twist it just a hair more and the body says, "Hey, I'll take it from here because you obviously don't know what you're doing... Lie down now, rest, and we'll talk about this when you regain your senses." It's called the knockout mechanism.
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That's what she said?
Fake. She doesn't talk with a full mouth.
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I just looked for this analysis to read it again.
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