Disciplining emotions when one invests is a major factor in achieving long-term success, especially when we are constantly bombarded by seemingly intelligent research that suggests equities are excessively risky for the long-term investor.
This assumption makes Kirsch a sensitive reader of formalists like Justice and Richard Wilbur, poets who are rhetorically restrained and temperamentally modest; he is also eloquent on the caustic Philip Larkin, who disciplines emotion through satire.
Only a poet like Donald Justice, Kirsch notes in another essay, "who is susceptible to great emotion knows the importance of disciplining that emotion".
However, in order to become a mature discipline, emotion research in HCI needs such a rigorous footing that future work can be based on.
The letter-writing process had been such an "agonizing chore" for her father, she observes, that this "specific epistolary formula, which he followed unconsciously, had offered him a comforting way of disciplining his emotions".
*They addressed the need to discipline their emotions to avoid the unnecessary penalties that helped force their second-round series with Toronto to the maximum seven games.
It chronicles and examines the extraordinary success of the Oakland Athletics' general manager, Billy Beane, who is a colorful mix of genius, discipline and emotion.
Working The Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centers is out from Pluto Press on November 20.
This is why I have boiled down my own investing philosophy to: Follow proven strategies, stay disciplined, trust facts, & beware emotions.
