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Have you ever made an investment that didn’t turn out the way you expected? What should you do if your investment fails? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s easy to become discouraged when things don’t go as planned, especially when your money is on the line. However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take risks. Investment failures do occur, fairly frequently, but if you keep trying, you could get lucky enough with one investment that it outweighs any failures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is why you shouldn’t let failure hold you back from trying again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Even if You Fail Frequently, You Can Still Succeed<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Failure is fairly common in the world of investing. Yet, even if you fail frequently, you can still succeed. Investment failures should not discourage you from trying again: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Housel explains that nearly every successful financial venture you hear about owes its success to low-probability outlier events\u2014luck. These events, when positive, compensate for a larger number of smaller setbacks that a company might go through. For example, the successful companies that drive investment returns are all outliers<\/strong>. As Housel notes, the assets of the Russell 3000 Index, which invests in public companies, increased by nearly 75 times over 34 years. But 40% of the index\u2019s companies lost most of their value. The gain was driven by just 7% of the index\u2019s companies\u2014the outlier events\u2014which were successful enough to offset the 40% that failed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Role of Luck<\/a> in Successful Companies<\/strong>

The Russel 3000 index represents the United States\u2019 3000 largest companies, serves as the basis of many financial products, and strives to be the \u201cbenchmark of the entire U.S. stock market<\/a>, indicating that the companies included in the index are all fairly successful. This fact supports Housel\u2019s theory that it\u2019s luck that separates the most<\/em> successful of these from the rest, as we can assume that all<\/em> of them are at least somewhat regularly making smart business decisions, and yet it\u2019s only 7% that break away from the pack with outstanding results. 

This calls into question Housel\u2019s earlier advice to watch for patterns\u2014if 40% of a group as competent as the companies in the Russell Index fail, it\u2019s difficult to know which patterns of behavior to emulate and which to dismiss. This is why even business books, which try to collect and share these patterns, don\u2019t always get it right. Sixteen of the 50 companies highlighted in three business classics failed within a few years of the books\u2019 publications, and only five continued to impress years later.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, outlier events drive the success of individual companies. <\/strong>For example, Nintendo failed repeatedly to break into the American video game market until the massive success of Super Mario Bros<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crucially, outlier events are powerful enough that they offset the failures<\/strong>: It didn\u2019t matter that Nintendo\u2019s other products failed because Super Mario Bros. did so well that it accounted for the losses<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: In this chapter, Housel only discusses the positive impact that outlier events have. However, the opposite is also technically true: a negative outlier event could drive the failure of an otherwise successful company because it was so powerful that it offset all of the other successes.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since we only pay attention to these outlier events\u2014and not to the failures that the outlier events offset\u2014we forget how rare<\/em> outlier events are (one in a million, in many cases) and conversely just how common failure is. As such, we overreact when failures inevitably happen to our own ventures. But when you realize how common failure is, you realize that you can fail most of the time and still be successful<\/strong>\u2014and thus, you can react to your failures appropriately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: While, as Housel notes, we rarely pay attention to the failed products or companies that the outliers offset, we do <\/em>pay attention to these failures in the context of individuals\u2019 careers: We often talk about how often the successful people failed before achieving their (outlier) success. Reminding yourself of stories like these\u2014like the fact that Richard Branson founded 400 companies before moneymaker Virgin Galactic<\/a>\u2014may help you remain calm next time you fail.)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to React to Investment Failure<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

What, exactly, counts as an appropriate reaction to investment failure?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, Housel recommends, pay attention not to the extent or frequency of individual failures but to the impact of your financial failures on your <\/strong>overall<\/em><\/strong> financial health. <\/strong>Housel argues that the world\u2019s most successful people probably fail just as frequently as you do. But we judge their success by the overall impact their outlier events\u2014the tiny percentage of actions that led to their success\u2014had. Similarly, the outlier events in your life can offset the impact of many individual failures. Therefore, paying too much attention to how often you fail or the outcome of an individual investment paints an inaccurate picture of your financial health. Instead, pay attention to your overall<\/em> financial health, since that\u2019s what matters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: To avoid focusing on the negative impact of failure, experts recommend that you reframe your view of failure, seeing each failure as an opportunity to learn what not to do in the future<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, Housel recommends, remain calm when others panic<\/strong>. Housel implies that people panic and pull their investments out when the market fluctuates because they\u2019re trying to time the market<\/em>\u2014to avoid the market when it goes down and jump back in when it rises. But this is impossible: Nobody can successfully time the market. Instead, Housel recommends, accept that it\u2019s OK to lose money sometimes because individual failures probably won\u2019t matter in the long run. Once you do, you\u2019ll be able to leave your investments alone even when the market fluctuates\u2014and since they\u2019ll be in the market longer, they\u2019ll compound more and make more money<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: If you\u2019re tempted to pull your investments out of the market when it fluctuates, remember this statistic from I Will Teach You To Be Rich<\/em><\/a>: On average, the stock market\u2019s annual net return is about 8%<\/a> (after accounting for inflation). That number is an average from decades worth of data, which means that your money will earn an average of 8% per year over the long term, even if that rate fluctuates in the short term. So no matter how badly things go, you\u2019ll still probably average about 8% gain in the long run.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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