“How to stop worrying and start living” by Dale Carnegie, Chapter-10: Put a “Stop Loss” order on your worries!

The idea of stop loss is famous among the finance community but for non-finance background, it’s the level at which an order is executed to limit the losses in the stock market. This idea can be used in our emotions too.

In this chapter, the author explained how a person without a stop-loss order can make huge losses in life too!

Sometimes when times are hard in life, we often fell into a downward spiral of emotions. Over time it compounds and we make our own life miserable. Only one or two griefs in a man’s life can make be destructive if he doesn’t know how to use stop loss order in life.

This idea of stop-loss order can save lives of those who couldn’t handle life pressure and commit suicide. A few months back, I realized that, if anything bad happened, be it a bad mood or a video of animal abuse. It would make my whole day miserable and days turn into weeks and months.

I learned about the stop-loss idea and started using this technique to save my energy and use it in doing something constructive.