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The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

Risk Taking, Gut Feelings, and the Biology of Boom and Bust

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The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

By: John Coates
Narrated by: Richard Powers
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A successful Wall Street trader turned Cambridge neuroscientist reveals the biology of boom and bust and how risk taking transforms our body chemistry, driving us to extremes of euphoria and risky behavior or stress and depression.

The laws of financial boom and bust, it turns out, have more than a little to do with male hormones. In a series of groundbreaking experiments, Dr. John Coates identified a feedback loop between testosterone and success that dramatically lowers the fear of risk in men - especially younger men. Significantly, the fear of risk is not reduced in women. Similarly, intense failure leads to a rise in levels of cortisol, the antitestosterone hormone, which lowers the appetite for risk across an entire spectrum of decisions.

Coates had set out to prove a strong intuition from his previous career: Before he became a world-class neuroscientist, Coates ran a derivatives desk in New York. As a successful trader on Wall Street, “the hour between dog and wolf” was the moment traders transformed - they would become revved up, exuberant risk takers when flying high or tentative, risk-averse creatures when cowering from their losses. Coates understood instinctively that these dispositions were driven by body chemistry - and then he proved it.

The Hour between Dog and Wolf expands on Coates’ own research to offer lessons from the entire exploding new field of the biology of risk. Risk concentrates the mind and body like nothing else, altering our physiology in ways that have profound and lasting effects. What’s more, biology shifts investors’ risk preferences across the business cycle and can precipitate great change in the marketplace.

Though Coates’ research concentrates on traders, his conclusions shed light on all types of high-pressure decision making, from the sports field to the battlefield. This book leaves us with a powerful insight: Handling risk in a “highly evolved” way isn’t a matter of mind over body; it’s a matter of mind and body working together. We all have it in us to be transformed from dog into wolf; the only question is whether we can understand the causes and the consequences.

©2012 John Coates (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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“A vivid and brilliantly written narrative: by integrating his knowledge of neuroscience with his experience as a Wall Street trader, Coates pulls back the curtain on the physiological mechanisms that prepare some individuals to thrive and others to be devastated by confronting risk.” (Stephen W. Porges, director, BrainBody Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago)

“This scintillating treatise...is a provocative and entertaining take on the irrational exuberance - and anxiety - of the modern economy.” (Publishers Weekly)

“John Coates brings finely honed scientific insight to his insider’s look at the world of highwire high finance to produce a vivid depiction of the minds, brains, and bodies of economic movers and shakers living on the edge.” (Gabor Maté, MD, author of When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress)

Fascinating Insights • Thought-provoking Content • Excellent Narration • Informative Science • Well-connected Topics
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great analysis but, this behavior should also be explored I. policy makers and economist who also operate with gut instincts that are very usually wrong.

not just wall street

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Excellent read on neuroscience and it's relationship to investment trading. Not a finance book (which is a good thing LOL).

Really good neuroscience book

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Book was very thorough and it touched on a multitude of topics, but they were all very connected. While reading this book, I was able to easily follow along with the points the author made as well as the anecdotes that he provided. The mind body connection that he describes is a remarkable new insight to a long-standing idea that we’ve all had. Being able to call out the differences to man and woman, and the fact that it’s not one mind and one body, but there they influence each other and by taking it all into consideration, you can really affect and change the performance of investments or life.

Remarkable insights and a New take on the mind body connection.

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Book started out strong, explained with detail both trading events and accompanying chemical changes in the body. middle part of the book became a bit repetitive.
last chapter is controversial but I see the point the author has arrived at.
excellent ideas. I would recommend not only to investors and traders, but everybody that wants to be aware of how their body affects their decisions.

excellent ideas

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I loved the analogy between the human body and the traders’ mind. It is all about our physiology and body.

It is a well explained book. I want to read it again.

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like: data driven, well resesarhed, argimens. Great book. Very persusive( explains mich irrational behavoir of ny own)

data driven

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Hands down the best book I have ever read / listened to. Will continue to listen to it over and over again!!

Amazing!

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I made it to chapter two before realizing that his points about the stock market were neither metaphor nor side note, and that the book did not feature any canine evolution. I was surprised to find that I really liked it all the same - an informative and thought-provoking book I never meant to read but thoroughly enjoyed. The author’s occasional stray into poetry would be regrettable if he weren’t so good at it, and so the flow of the book is both pleasant and enlightening.

Seriously, I loved it. I didn’t mean to read it, but I’m glad I did.

Not actually about dogs or wolves

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Fascinating book whose principles are exemplified in well written stories. There are other “brains” in the body that work with and apart from the brain. Narration was pitch perfect.

Thinking that Occurs Faster & Outside the Brain

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The biology of decision making. John also illustrates the potential for science on the topic of decision making. Great listen

Eye-opening

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