Dr. Daniel Crosby - The Case for Calm: Being Still in a Turning World

About this episode

Dr. Daniel Crosby discusses how to maintain calm and poise in turbulent market conditions.

This year on Standard Deviations, we are going to try something a little different. We will be running the episodes weekly now, there will be no guests, each episode will disappear a week after it publishes and we are really going to focus on meaning this season. In this episode, Dr. Daniel Crosby looks at how we can face turbulent markets with the poise and calm needed to successfully make it through these tough moments. Educated at Brigham Young and Emory Universities, Dr. Daniel Crosby is a psychologist and behavioral finance expert who helps organizations understand the intersection of mind and markets. Dr. Crosby's first book, Personal Benchmark: Integrating Behavioral Finance and Investment Management, was a New York Times bestseller. His second book, The Laws of Wealth, was named the best investment book of 2017 by the Axiom Business Book Awards and has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese and German. His latest work, The Behavioral Investor, is an in-depth look at how sociology, psychology and neurology all impact investment decision-making. Daniel was named one of the “12 Thinkers to Watch” by Monster.com, a “Financial Blogger You Should Be Reading” by AARP…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Daniel Crosby

Topics covered

• behavioral finance
• market psychology
• calm in turbulence
• investment decision-making
• self-improvement

Keywords

• behavioral finance
• investment
• market psychology
• calm
• self-improvement
• decision-making
• turbulent markets

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Brigham Young University, Emory University, Monster.com, AARP, InvestmentNews

Books & works: Personal Benchmark: Integrating Behavioral Finance and Investment Management, The Laws of Wealth, The Behavioral Investor

Places: St. Louis

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