New Delhi, Feb. 11 -- In the 2007 film Chak De India!, coach Kabir Khan (played by Shah Rukh Khan) delivers a famous speech about the "Ye 70 minute!" of the game. For investors, however, the more useful lesson comes later, during the final penalty shootout.

India and Australia are tied. As the Australian player steps up, Kabir Khan watches her feet and stick and signals his goalkeeper: "Don't move! Stay put!". The keeper holds her ground, stays perfectly still in the centre, and the ball flies straight into her hands. Game over. India wins.

The moment works on screen because it feels counter-intuitive. Under pressure, standing still looks reckless. Yet that instinct-to act, to dive, to do something-is often precisely what gets us into t...