Dr. Gio Valiante
14 statements across 3 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 31, 2023 by Dr. Gio Valiante · across every show →
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Oct 31, 2023
Oct 31, 2023 positive
Valiante: Changing your environment transforms behavior more effectively than changing your mindset
“More often than not, if you want to be somebody else, change your environment, like change where you are. And by changing your environment and or the people around you, all of a sudden, the way the dominoes start to fall is, is you're a better version of yours…”
Oct 31, 2023 positive
Oct 31, 2023
Valiante: Personality and IQ are largely fixed, while discipline is malleable
“So we look at fixed traits like personality, by and large, you're not changing personality. Things like IQ. I mean, they shift over time. They tend to gradually
Move in a direction consistent with, you know, with family sort of IQ, a fixed trait like IQ. Thin…”
Oct 31, 2023 positive
Nov 14, 2023
Dr. Gio Valiante: Success requires learning how to fail productively
“The fact of the matter is failure is woven into the fabric of success. It's not how do you avoid failure. That's the wrong question. The right question is how do I fail or how should I fail in ways that lead to the type of skill development and belief system t…”
Jul 7, 2026
Valiante: The Human Brain Did Not Evolve for Modern Investing or Athletics
“Natural selection doesn't work as fast as changes in society. So I always say this to golfers, your game, your brain did not evolve for you to be a PGA tech golfer or hedge fund manager. Your brain did not evolve with the intention of you being a professional …”
Jul 7, 2026 negative
Jul 7, 2026 positive
Jul 7, 2026 positive
Valiante: Rebuilding confidence in slumps requires stacking small wins
“And so step one for anybody in crisis, honestly, whether it's a golfer, PM, people in private markets, venture capital firms, and it's what you said, alluded to earlier, runners, it's like, let's start finding small wins. Things that we know we can, and then c…”
Jul 7, 2026
Valiante spends 15 minutes every Friday auditing his unconscious thoughts
“Every Friday, at the end of the day, I take 10 or 15 minutes and I ask myself a simple question. I say, What are my attachments that have attached themselves to me that are interrupting my thoughts that I didn't put there by conscious choice? And what am I thi…”
Jul 7, 2026
Valiante: Anxious People Create Their Own Anxiety by Over-Indexing on the Future
“Forethought tends to lead to people over-indexing to the future. So essentially what we start asking is, what if questions? What if I, what if this plane crashes? Oh my god. We know that people who are anxious are, live in the future. They create their own anx…”
Jul 7, 2026 positive
Valiante: There is more psychological alpha within individuals than between them
“Research shows that the differences within, within individuals is typically greater than between individuals. In society today, we spend so much time comparing candidate A versus candidate B. There's more psychological alpha within individuals than between ind…”
Jul 7, 2026 negative
Valiante: Fear distorts market perception and undermines risk-taking ability
“When we lose our confidence, we see the market as a place of threat. Everything is dangerous. Landmines everywhere. And so you come off your ability to take any risk, because all you see is danger, and so that's why you have to protect your confidence. Why is …”