Dr. Daniel Crosby - Write Your Story

About this episode

Dr. Daniel Crosby discusses the importance of storytelling and how our internal narrative shapes our lives and personal growth.

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 the importance of storytelling. In particular, he illustrates how our internal narrative is integral to how we make sense of our lives and how we create meaning. In closing, Dr. Crosby shows us some exercises that can help us overcome detrimental self-speak and turn our self narrative into a force for personal growth. 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…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Daniel Crosby

Topics covered

• storytelling
• self narrative
• personal growth
• behavioral finance
• meaning

Keywords

• storytelling
• self narrative
• personal growth
• behavioral finance
• meaning

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

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