Rule Breaker Psychology: Why It's So Hard to Hold on Through the Dips

In this Rule Breaker video, Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner shifts the focus away from the numbers game to a mental one. Picking good investments is, after all, only one part of growing your wealth -- another key aspect is maintaining the disciplined mindset and emotional distance required to avoid making the wrong moves.

As he has often pointed out, markets fall faster than they rise, but they rise more than they fall. Even knowing that, it can be truly difficult for an investor to ride out those bearish periods, and there are two key reasons why.

A full transcript follows the video.

Source: Fool.com