I can not cease studying the information concerning the coronavirus and its affect on the financial system. My mind is hardwired to obsess on a disaster, even one which does not affect me instantly. Every little thing else will get pushed to the periphery whereas one calamitous drawback fills my thoughts.

Through the monetary disaster of 2008-2009, I assumed the world was going to finish. (I by no means predicted {that a} greater than 50% drop within the inventory market would precede the longest bull market in historical past.)

I believe I do know why my thoughts operates this fashion. In first grade, I ran by means of a plate-glass window. I went from being a child chasing a pal to a affected person in an ambulance shedding gallons of blood. I've a fight-or-flight mechanism if I am being trustworthy, it is all flight that will get activated anytime a giant disaster occurs. All of those disasters push the identical button.

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