Quote from: Roccker on January 20, 2015, 01:53:02 AM

- Ideas and stories how to cope with losing a lot of money

Bhuddist philosophy can help you realize that money, like any other materialistic pursuits, is futile.
It's easier said than done, but I found that listening to charismatic buddhist lamas helps a lot to assimilate that concept.
Basically, the idea is to transform your mind so that you can view the world through another lense where money wouldn't really be such big deal.

To give a metaphore, it's a bit like if your life was a video game played by your mind: do you care if your character is poor so long as playing is interesting? Maybe losing money was an important twist in the plot that unlocks some deep learning. Imagine if you had become rich, you may have become one of these self-righteous idiots and ended up missing completly the point of your life on earth. Getting rich quick is like playing with cheat codes: life becomes boring and unchallenging, and playing without the cheat codes becomes unbearable.

One good place to start is this video of Google Tech Talks where they invited the bhuddist nun who started the Prison Liberation Project. The video is about being your own therapist. I like this video because it's very down to earth, easy to understand and very well adapted to the western mind.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nasIq4E9nNg

edit: fixed video link