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Motley Fool Money · February 12, 2024 · 35m
Morgan Housel on Why Your Financial Decisions Are Emotional
Morgan Housel returns to his Motley Fool roots to discuss how emotions drive financial decisions more than spreadsheets. He argues that personal financial history (growing up rich vs poor) shapes investment behavior more than education or information.
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Housel argues that the financial environment you grew up in (wealth or poverty, inflation or stability, boom or bust) creates a mental model that shapes your financial behavior for the rest of your life, often overriding any formal education.
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Your financial decisions are driven by your personal history, not your financial knowledge — people who lived through the Depression invest differently than people who didn't
Housel argues that a person born in 1930 who experienced the Depression has a fundamentally different relationship with money than a person born in 1970 who experienced the 1990s bull market. Both are rational given their experience; neither is 'right.'Was this useful?