#MastertheMarket Market downturns create fear, panic, and uncertainty. Yet history's greatest investors have built their fortunes not by fleeing these conditions, but by embracing them.

"What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history," Warren Buffett famously observed. When markets plunge, most investors forget the fundamental truth that these cycles are inevitable and temporary. Buffett and his longtime partner, Charlie Munger, repeatedly emphasized that they made most of their money during bear markets—not by timing the bottom perfectly, but by remaining rational when others succumbed to emotion.