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The Luckiest Day Of My Life

Warren Buffett says that one of the luckiest days of his life was when he was 19-years-old and happened to have picked up Benjamin Graham’s book, The Intelligent Investor

That book changed his investment philosophy and his whole life.

He says that had it not been for the book, he would’ve been a different person at a different place.

Cost of Mistakes

Overconfidence is a very serious problem, but you probably don’t think it affects you. That’s the tricky thing with overconfidence: the people who are most overconfident are the ones least likely to recognize it. We tend to think of it as someone else’s problem.

When it comes to investing, however, we all have a problem.

As we become more and more confident we become willing to take on more and more risk. Why? We start seeing risky behavior as, well, less risky. But the reality is that as the level of overconfidence increases, the cost of our mistakes increase as well. (more…)