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“Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.”

— Josh Billings

If you’ve ever tried meditation, you’ll know that doing nothing for more than about 10 seconds is weirdly difficult.

If you haven’t, you might not realize just how much the human mind rebels against inactivity — an evolutionary inheritance from when doing nothing meant starving on the savannah (or getting eaten), I guess.

These days, our bias for taking action is nowhere more evident than in financial markets, where the headlines are always…

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