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Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby

Dr. Daniel Crosby

The Standard Deviations podcast is a weekly production that looks at money, mind and meaning, all through a psychological lens. Each week, psychologist and New York Times bestselling author Dr. Daniel Crosby interviews a fascinating new guest, experts in everything from finance to literature to wellness. Each guest provides listeners with three concrete ways to apply what was learned that week, ensuring that weekly listening becomes part of a path to a richer life. Episodes are brief,

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00:26:39

Ric Edelman (Live from Ascent)

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2021/09/30

Tune in to hear:- Ric Edelman started off as a reporter - does Ric think that an advisor could start “Edelman 2.0", so to speak, using the same formula with education at the forefront?- Why might it be wise to “narrowcast” rather than broadcast?- What are two or three actionable steps that American investors can take now?- Why does Ric think that Blockchain technology is one of the top four inventions in the history of commerce?- How does one strike a balance between being enthusiastic about

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00:23:38

Phillip Toews (Live from Ascent)

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2021/09/23

Tune in to hear:- Many are very focused on the behavioral coaching elements of behavioral finance, but overlook the upside of integrating the findings of behavioral finance into actual asset management. How can we be better about balancing the two?- Toews’ portfolios attempt to anticipate declines. How specifically does he go about that and what specific signals is he looking for?- How can we think about tactical signals in a world that moves so quickly, like we saw with the corona crisis?- What

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00:47:50

Dr. Tom Howard - Behavioral Portfolio Management

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2021/09/16

Tune in to hear:- What event prompted Dr. Howard to move from using a market efficiency / rational markets framework to a framework of behavioral finance?- How can we discover market inefficiencies that are exploitable if the price is almost always wrong and not reflecting true value?- If the behavioral dislocations of market prices are so vast, and the price is always wrong, why is the industry so bad at generating persistent returns?- It appears that the “best ideas” of active managers do out

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00:38:58

Gagan Biyani - Lessons from a Lifelong Entrepreneur

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2021/09/09

Tune in to hear:- What was the process of launching Dr. Biyani’s business Udemy like?- As an entrepreneur, how do you know when you’re a visionary that may be early to an idea vs. when the market is simply telling you your idea isn’t worthwhile?- What advantages does virtual learning have over traditional learning and where might it fall short?- Does Dr. Biyani think that a lot of the all-star talent in a particular field get pulled into online teaching, leaving universities weakened or less

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00:36:42

Drs. Chase and Pogge (Live From Ascent)

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2021/09/01

Tune in to hear:- What gap did Dr. Chase see in the market? How has investment talent been traditionally vetted and how does this compare to how it optimally should be?- What specific personality assessments do they use and how do they settle on these?- How do Drs. Chase and Pogge utilize Rorschachs to vet different personality styles?- Taking results from a test like The Big 5 at face value might not tell you enough about someone’s personality. How can we further break these down into their

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01:21:00

Dr. Sarah Newcomb - Rewriting Your Money Story

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2021/08/31

Tune in to hear:- Why do conversations about finances often take on such a moralistic tenor?- Is the moralizing of money a uniquely American problem or does this happen all over the world?- How can we accrue the benefits of being well off without falling prey to the lack of passion that can accompany this at times?- The possession-self link states that we don’t necessarily differentiate between the things we are and who we are. How does this play out practically?- Those with a clear mental picture

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01:01:52

Eben Burr - Creating a Client Plan

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2021/08/26

Tune in to hear:- In a study that Eben helped conduct, clients were three times as likely to say they are very knowledgable about markets than their advisors were likely to say about them. Men had a similarly outsized response and were three times more likely than women to say they were knowledgable. Are clients overestimating their ability to understand markets or are their advisors not giving them enough credit?- What can the financial services community do to minimize the delta between who people

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00:37:29

Jordan Hutchison - Flow States in Finance

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2021/08/19

Tune in to hear:- What is “flow” in a behavioral science context?- How do you begin to measure and study something like flow, which seems very ephemeral and hard to pin down?- Is it possible to reach a flow state performing a task/job you dislike?- How to we push past the stumbling block phase, with a challenging skill like drawing or skateboarding, and eventually work to a level of expertise or ease where flow states become possible?- We have a good sense of what flow looks like in athletics and

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00:35:33

Charlotte Blank - The Science of Motivation

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2021/08/12

Tune in to hear:- What does Charlotte’s day to day role as a Chief Behavioral Officer look like?- Has the science of motivating employees shifted a great deal since The Great Depression or do other cultural or economic factors play into people’s loyalty to a particular company?- How accurately can people assess what motivates them to work?- What wrong assumptions do people routinely make about what motivates human behavior?- What is a simple randomized control trial (RCT) that a business could run

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00:56:58

Niching Down with Reese Harper of Elements

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2021/07/23

Tune in to hear:- Reese Harper has an advisory business, Dentist Advisors, that is exclusively for dentists. How did he take the first step to say no to everything else and how did choosing such a specific niche serve him well?- How did he land on dentists, in particular, as his niche?- Why do dentists, on average, retire 6 years later than their fellow Americans when they make 4x as much as the average American?- Dentists and Financial Advisors have the highest rates of suicide of any profession

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00:34:07

Dr. Preston Cherry - Unique Financial Considerations...

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2021/07/08

Tune in to hear:- How does Dr. Cherry implement “The Big 5” personality test in his practice? Does he approach clients with different personality traits in novel ways to better help them problem solve?- How were The Big 5 traits ultimately arrived upon?- How might one shift communication with their client if the client displays high levels of anxiety? Should the actual asset allocation look different for them or is the anxiety simply approached in the coaching process?- How can financial

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00:45:03

Jeff Kreisler - Dollars and Sense: The Psychology of...

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2021/07/01

Tune in to hear:- How did Jeff’s professional path evolve from lawyer, to standup comedian and finally to behavioral science / economics?- What lessons could behavioral science stand to learn from the art of standup comedy?- If two different comedies tell a joke with similar content, the joke might land for one of them while feeling really caustic and tone deaf for the other. What might account for this difference and how can one exude more empathy and authenticity in such a retelling?- What does

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00:49:38

Richard Nisbett - Does Introspection Actually Matter?

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2021/06/24

Tune in to hear:- On a previous podcast, Richard Nisbett expressed that the most central message of psychology is that we have no access to most of what goes on in our heads. What studies are illustrative of this dramatic conclusion he reached?- What are the implications of this stream of thought, particularly in regards to free will and determinism?- In light of this research, are things like introspection valuable or do they simply feel meaningful?- If environment is highly influential in our

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00:28:26

Anthony Oneal - Building Your Network, Networth,...

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2021/06/18

Tune in to hear:- How did Anthony move from being homeless, and in a great deal of debt, to being one of the nation’s top educators on money matters and part of the Dave Ramsey franchise? What four steps were critical in this journey?- Anthony stresses the importance of intentionality in one’s spiritual journey, network journey, net worth journey and their overall mindset. Are these elements broadly applicable to the general population, or did they simply work for Anthony?- Where does Anthony see

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00:46:04

Joe Saul-Sehy - Three Steps to Mastering Personal...

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2021/06/15

- Three steps to mastering personal finance.- What is the knowledge or education gap in financial literature that Joe Saul-Sehy’s new book ‘Stacked’ fills?- What role might humor play in a successful financial plan?- How can we move people towards financial goals that are more visceral and poignant and away from mimetic, or culturally inherited, goals?- Why is automation such a powerful financial tool and how does Joe recommend people best utilize it?- What advice does John Saul offer on finding a

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00:30:18

Colin Lancaster - Fed Policy and its Implications

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2021/06/10

Tune in to hear:- What is Colin’s perspective on the extreme fear and greed that arose throughout the pandemic in 2020? These are constants within the market, but why were they of particular interest in this cycle?- Are investors primed for misbehavior because of what we went through last year?- Learn more about Colin’s new book Fed Up: Success, Excess and Crisis Through the Eyes of a Hedge Fund Macro Trader- Colin believes that both Quantitative Easing and Central Banks have a net negative impact

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00:46:38

Michael Falk - Emotional Intelligence as Investment...

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2021/06/01

Tune in to hear:- What might the personality of an ideal hire for a leadership position in asset management look like?- How can one measure things like emotional intelligence and curiosity that can seem kind of ethereal or hard to get your arms around?- Has Michael come across any counterintuitive, or surprising, discoveries in his research as he’s tried to fill talent gaps in the financial services industry?- How does a company best walk the line between having adequate conflict, to fully vet and

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00:51:06

Carl Richards - How to Make and Keep Financial Goals

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2021/05/20

Tune in to hear:- Carl Richards speaks about serving real financial advisors. This of course presupposes the existence of fake financial advisors, so what’s the difference between a real financial advisor and a fake financial advisors?- What practical advice can help one avoid a financial advisor that doesn’t have your best interests at heart?- How do we help clients articulate powerful goals that are salient and motivating without failing prey to this trip of false precision?- How do we begin to

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00:48:57

Jamie Hopkins - How to Think About Retiring

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2021/05/13

Tune in to hear:- Is the classic retirement trope of working hard until your 65 and retiring to a life of leisure sort of an antiquated way of thinking about retirement?- Is the prospect of people having to work later in their life net good or net negative for most individuals?- Research shows that people who are retired, on average, are happier than those who aren’t. However, there’s also an outlier group of retired individuals who are much more depressed than those who continue to work. Is this

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00:43:26

Q & A with Michael Batnick of Animal Spirits

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2021/05/06

Tune in to hear:- Why might the narrative that “our parents’ generation had it much easier financially than we do now” be incorrect? What assumptions does it make?- When yields on a 50/50 stock and bond portfolio, yields are historically anemic right now. What are investors supposed to do in a time like this and how do we prevent them from just chasing yield and moving up the risk spectrum?- What has Michael’s personal experience with NFTs been like and how does he think about that part of the

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