Analyzing the various factors in the context of your financial goals will help to minimize the impetuous thoughts that lead to bad decision making and equally bad investment performance.

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So to go back to Libet, whether consciousness comes before, after or simultaneously with decision-making, the key point is that thoughts and decisions are produced by no more than a brain working according to the laws of physics.

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