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Cognitive dissonance in investing

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You didn’t lose. The market was just scripting.

Sometimes the enemy isn’t the market. It’s your own brain. More precisely, the stories you tell yourself to protect your ego when reality hits hard.


This skill explores how cognitive dissonance leads us to justify bad trades, ignore red flags and twist logic to feel right even when we’re wrong. It’s not a rare bug. It’s a default feature of human psychology.


If you don’t learn to spot these mental tricks, they compound just like bad positions. But once you catch them, you can trade them in for clarity and control.


You'll learn:


  1. How cognitive dissonance distorts your decisions and blocks real learning
  2. Why we cling to bad trades to protect our ego
  3. What habits help you cut through the noise and stay honest under pressure