Fear and greed in algorithm problem solving

July 3, 2019

Introduction

It is my personal finance research. I learn that fear and greed is the biggest problem for an investor. I also like to look into this issue when I work on algorithm problem solving. Emotion is a biggest enemy in investment, can I say same thing in algorithm problem solving?

Fear

I worry about so many things, first five year full time from 2010 to 2015, I did not work on algorithm problem solving at all.

Compare to the time range from 2010 to 2015, I believe that I learn much better from 2015 to 2019. Since I started to work on coding blog, code review stackexchange, mock interview, Leetcode, I push myself to learn and meet so many people.

Greed

I was very greedy. From 2010 to 2015, I worked full time but I did not know how to advance myself in terms of career. My naive thinking is not to take any sick day for first two years, no vacation day for the first whole year. I was so greedy.

But it turned out that I did not balance very well. I did not check my Par 401 K statement from 2007 to 2019 monthly; I did not learn how to put my IRA CD into stock market, I did not learn how to invest my retirement fund.