When the Right Call Looks Wrong
What do you do when the smartest money decision you made is the one you can’t stop second-guessing?
In this episode, I dig into a line from Morgan Housel about how it’s possible to make good decisions that don’t work and bad decisions that work beautifully. I talk about why that lands so hard for families who built their careers in fields where good process reliably produces good results, and why money refuses to play by those rules.
I use the example I see most often: families with a large portion of their net worth tied up in company stock, and a decision to trim it or hold it that ends up looking wrong for a while, either way.
I also share a decision from my own life that looked questionable for a couple of years before it didn’t, and what that taught me about separating the quality of a decision from an outcome I couldn’t control. We close with one small question you can ask about the money decision you keep replaying, the one that finally lets you put it down.
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1 Big Idea to Think About
A good financial decision and a good outcome are two different things. You control the decision. You were never promised the outcome.
1 Way You Can Apply This
Before you judge a past money move, ask whether it was sound for what your family needed at the time, not whether the market happened to reward it.
1 Question to Ask
Which money decision am I still replaying, and am I grading it on the outcome or on the thinking behind it?
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