Warren Buffett (see the above picture, where he is teaching a class) often says that the best investment you can make is in yourself. The more you learn, the more you earn.
Now, it’s easy to assume that learning ends when you’re in your early twenties. You finish college, and go into the “real world” of work. No more term papers, no more exams. A lot of people hardly ever pick up a book again – except perhaps to read on vacation.
Some people never give learning much thought. They pick up bits and pieces in an unstructured way, learning just enough to get through the job at hand.
But it’s important to understand that to accomplish great things in life, you have to keep learning. Investing is no different.
It doesn’t matter how smart you are or how knowledgeable you are as an investor. You can always learn more. To assume you’ve learned everything in investing is to stagnate, and stagnation does not bring success.
If you were to interview the most successful investors in the world today, there is a common denominator: they say they are always learning.
In fact, the simple reason investing legends like Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett are so wise and smart decision-makers is because they have never stopped learning. Instead, they have let the power of compounding work in their learning as well. And as Munger says –
Neither Warren nor I is smart enough to make the decisions with no time to think. We make actual decisions very rapidly, but that’s because we’ve spent so much time preparing ourselves by quietly sitting and reading and thinking.
When it comes to learning, the biggest question a lot of people ask me is – “Where do I start and what should I read?”
I am always ready with my list of books worth reading again and again. But the next question is – “Who has the time to read so many books?”
Well, this is a genuine problem as most of us are busy in our work and family lives. So reading through a lot of investing books – even the best ones – and other resources to get through the best ideas is quite a task.
And then all those insights and good ideas come with associated noise. How do you know which book is relevant to you, which is not. How do you separate the wheat from the chaff? It’s such hard work.
Right? Well, not anymore!
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With respect,
Vishal