Optimal Finance Daily · Wednesday, September 9, 2026
The podcast host acknowledges that while many understand the logic of staying invested through market crashes, the emotional difficulty of doing so is significant. He suggests that actively avoiding constant monitoring of investment accounts can be a strategy to prevent impulsive, detrimental decisions during volatile periods.
“The hard part is actually sitting on your hands when your account is down 30% and every headline is screaming that this time is different.”
“What's helped me is mostly just not looking. I don't check my accounts when things are bad because there's really nothing to do anyway if the plan is to stay the course.”
“So if you're someone who gets rattled in the down years, the best thing might be to set things up so you're not staring at it every day.”