The fear of a tiger attacking is fundamentally different from the fear of a Tesla stock price falling, yet our psychological response mechanism treats them the same way, leading to predictably irrational financial decisions.
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“being afraid of a tiger is not the same of being afraid of about the stock of Tesla going down or going up and these are not the same thing and they don't require the same mechanism but but the way that that our psychology work is is the same”
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The Many Ways Our Irrational Minds Sabotage Our Wealth | Dan Ariely, Behavioral Economist— WealthionCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:45:07 PM
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