Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
The Prepared Investor is my first book. I’m a finance professional with a military background that began at the United States Military Academy at West Point. My firm, Manske Wealth Management, is responsible for almost half a billion dollars for individuals and institutions all over the world. I have been praised, published, or quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Reader’s Digest, U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, Financial Advisor Magazine, and more. Outside finance, I enjoy history and recently completed an award-winning restoration of a downtown building originally built in 1910. I’m also a big fan of the works of Thomas Cole, particularly The Course Of Empire
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
I wanted to offer worried investors, finance professionals, members of the FIRE movement, and entrepreneurs some specific strategies to stop patterns of avoidance, passivity, and wait-and-see behavior that is normal in the investing world during crisis. My book outlines how to protect and grow an investment portfolio in the face of major crisis and I explore why some crises affect the stock market more than others. I ask, “Does it make sense that Wall Street reacts to every single crisis in exactly the same way,” because the true story of crisis investing is more proactive –and a lot more optimistic –than it seems on the surface. We can protect and grow our net worth in the face of calamity by understanding how different types of crises affect the markets. Like the book, Outliers showed a different way to look at success and Nine Lies About Work turned the establishment upside down on leadership and teams, I really wanted to offer new perspective and decisively demonstrate that society’s reaction to crisis is surprisingly predictable. In making this pattern clear, I hope my book offers a compelling approach to maximizing investment portfolios despite tomorrow’s uncertainty. Wall Street has the same response to every type of major crisis: stay the course, don’t make changes, we’ll get through this together. The Prepared Investor asks readers if that all-or-nothing approach might serve Wall Street more than Main Street.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I am at my best in the early hours, fresh, ready to go!
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I’ve drawn inspiration from Peggy Noonan, Malcolm Gladwell, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Jordan B. Peterson, Oprah Winfrey, and Warren Buffet.
What are you working on now?
My book launch – The Prepared Investor is available online wherever books are sold!
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I like Amazon but I’ve also got my own website which is easy to find if you Google “christopher manske” or “the prepared investor.”
Do you have any advice for new authors?
I strongly urge new authors to attend at least two major writer’s conferences. I’ve gone to a number of them and, each time, I’ve always learned something new.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Don’t let what you want right this minute keep you from what you really want.
What are you reading now?
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
What’s next for you as a writer?
I’d really like to attend writer’s conferences again, but this time as a speaker so that I can share my journey and help other writers.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Besides survival guides? I’d enjoy escaping with as many Mistborn books as possible from Brandon Sanderson.
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