Comments on: Your Money And Your Brain – Book Review

By: Marlen Arguedas

Marlen Arguedas — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:54:18 +0000

Your Brain & Your Money brings to me certain important issues about neuro-science and feelings and emotions that are part of the human nature. However, I agree with one of the critics who states that this book does not meant to help you to became a good or bad investor. What it teaches me is to be aware about the psychology of the investor who use a biological brain , and that is the issue in Zweig’s ideas because not many of us are experts in the field of behavioral sciences, and , perhaps, many of the readers count more in numbers than in psychological facts. Well, Jason Zweig, the author of this book brings that subject with a tricky persuation in the cover of the book telling that, : How the new science of neuroeconomics can help make you rich. The latest is bolony in terms of buying the idea of the accumulation of money, but could be truth in terms of making the readear to underestando the neuroscience of making choices to invest and in life iteself. No wonder we are bombarded by thousand of commercials telling all of us that we are Homo- Shoppers rather than Homo-Sapiens. Perhaps the intention of Zweig is to make the reader a better shopper of ideas and stocks, you choose it when you decided top read the book. And ….I am in the same boat
too!
Marlen Arguedas ( Costa Rica)

By: Stock Buster

Stock Buster — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:12:11 +0000

I don’t read the book yet. But I’m very interesting in readed soon.

Anyway, you have a very good point of view…

Stock buster.

By: A Lap Of The Blogs : WhereDoesAllMyMoneyGo.com

A Lap Of The Blogs : WhereDoesAllMyMoneyGo.com — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:46:16 +0000

[...] The Quest for Four Pillars gives a quick book review of “Your Money and Your Brain”. Actually, the other half of the dynamic duo also reviewed it the next day. [...]

By: Canadian Capitalist

Canadian Capitalist — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:20:32 +0000

Thanks for the link Mr. Cheap! I haven’t read tipping point yet, it’s on my list for a long time.

By: deepali

deepali — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:05:40 +0000

Oooh, sounds like my kind of book. I recently picked up “Predictably Irrational”, so that’s first up, but I’ll add this to the list. I do have to say, though, that books like “Stumbling on Happiness” and “The Tipping Point” do change my life. They make me question the assumptions I have about my own objectivity, and help me better understand other people’s behavior too.
Not money-related, but there’s a story in The Tipping Point about a woman who was beaten to death by her husband in front of an apt building – and no one called 911 (everyone thought everyone else would do it). I remembered that when I awoken at 4 am by screaming in my alley a year ago…

By: Four Pillars

Four Pillars — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:46:35 +0000

Good review.

I do think the books general theme can make you a better investor but you are right – it’s not all that directly applicable to your investing.