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Ben Carlson on Why It’s Better to Avoid a Strikeout Than to Swing for a Home run

aired Apr 19, 2026 · 24.0m
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Summary

They've been beat over the head for so many years and decades of people telling them and people like you at The Motley Fool and that's people like me in a blog, hey. It And seems like people have actually learned.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of think, like, people, including: When stocks go down, you don't run out of the store because they're on sale.

Key takeaways
  1. 01When stocks go down, you don't run out of the store because they're on sale
  2. 02That was Ben Carlson, author of the Wealth of Common Sense blog, co host of the Animal Spirits Podcast, and the author of the upcoming book, Risk and How to Handle Market Volatilit
  3. 03So if you're an individual stock picker, as long as you have, again, that intestinal fortitude to stick with a long term winner like that, like, that can pay off a lot of bets
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