Shaving My Head Was An Experience Investors Can Learn From. Here’s How.

Shaving My Head Was An Experience Investors Can Learn From. Here’s How.

September 19, 2020

Don’t try this at home. Unless you really know what you are doing.

The weeks of self-quarantine have caused all of us to do things we always thought of doing. Frankly, I’ve been so busy with my “day job” that I have yet to join the millions of folks finally tackling those “projects” they never had time for.

However, I did squeeze in something that was in some ways necessary, but with a 2020-lifestyle twist. I shaved my head. And, I guess since I am never too far from analogizing most things in my life to the process of investing, investment behavior and portfolio management, this “event” in my life brought some helpful perspective about investing in bear markets.

Now, you can see from my profile picture, I am quite “follicly-challenged” to begin with. But, like many men my age, there is still good reason to go for a haircut every month. However, barber shops are not “essential business” right now, for obvious reasons.

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