Mastery vs. Ego

This week I had a great opporutnity to learn from sports psychologist?Gio Valiante.

Golf is a mental game. It takes supreme confidence and poise under pressure to win championships.

Sports psychologist Gio Valiante has trained the best golfers, NFL players and hedge fund portfolio managers.

1 key takeaway from his insights:

Mastery vs. Ego Orientation

Simply put, golfers play the game for different reasons. Some are motivated to “show off” and appear competent to other people. These are called Ego golfers (they play to enhance their ego). On the contrary, Mastery golfers play for the sake of learning and improvement. They care about their golf games, not what others say about their golf games. Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, and Ben Hogan are all mastery golfers. Both orientations have been studied extensively. Research shows that a mastery orientation in achievement domains tends to lead to better, more consistent results.

Mastery Orientated individuals are more likely to persevere in the face of failure, and they are also more likely to seek out new challenges and opportunities for learning. In contrast, Ego Orientation is associated with a fixed mindset, where individuals believe that their abilities are static and cannot be improved.

Our main goal here at Tuttle Ventures is to have the Vision, Courage, and Patience to invest so you can do the rest. It’s our goal to deploy capital proportional to the opportunity at the moment.

We promise to stay dedicated to the craft of investing for our clients, through the good times and the bad.

I'll Pass on the Notes

We have talked on numerous occasions about how:?Bond Math Doesn’t Look Good.

We are now seeing the worst drawdown for Treasurys since the Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Index began in 1994. Not even close.

Courtesy of Ycharts:

Ouch!

Naturally, we have avoided the allocation to fixed income within portfolios and continue to have a fresh and clear-eyed approach to opportunies that may be presented in the moment. Now that the 10-year is above 2.50%, we are considering the merits- once inflation cools down. This still has not happened. We need wage growth inflation to come back down below 4% levels before we think inflation can be meaningfully held at bay.

We do not attach portfolio performance or any one investment to our ego- when the bond math changes- we will be ready to invest back into the asset class.

Currently we are seeing an uptick in interest rate volatility that has the threads of Japan in the post 1990’s.

What happens to IR vol as rates approach the zero lower bound?

Look no further than Japan...

(Hint, Vol goes up)

Next week I’ll dedicate a deeper dive into why I think the investment landscape in both fixed income and equities in the US is headed to post-1990’s Japan.

I?took to Twitter?to give a rough outline of the premise at the macro level if you want a sneak peek of the idea that we think may guide portfolio decisions over the next 6-18 months.

Thank you for reading and I am grateful and humbled to be able to learn, grow and invest alongside you at Tuttle Ventures.

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Important Disclosures Here

Best,

Darin Tuttle

Founder and CIO of Tuttle Ventures, LLC

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