Are some people wired to be better investors?

The head-space of an investor is filled with a ton of crap: news, stock tickers, macroeconomic factors, fundamental analysis, technical analysis, who is buying, who is selling, what the hottest guy/gal on Wall Street is saying, and more. How can anyone synthesize all this information into a logical decision? Unfortunately, the majority of these data points are irrelevant noise, yet have a significant influence on investing results.

As humans — and investors — our goal is to turn down the volume of this external noise and turn up the development of…