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Podcast: Thoughts on Record: Podcast of the Ottawa Institute of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Episode: Scott Nations: The Role of Cognitive Distortions in Investing
Description: Comments or feedback? Send us a text! Investing and management of finances is often a source of considerable distress for many individuals. Investor, CIO & author, Scott Nations, joins us for a discussion of some of the core themes discussed in his new book, The Anxious Investor. In this conversation we cover:  why Scott wrote The Anxious Investorthe evolutionary basis of investing behavior  loss aversion as a central driver of irrational behavior in the context of investinglessons from the mathematics of the stock market that can be applied to day-to-day decision making the role of cognitive distortions with r...