Since compared to many of you I'm still an investing novice, and have a hard time learning from books alone, I deliberately took more risks than were wise in order to teach myself the game. Well, I've learned a ton along the way, and not surprisingly come out the other end a bit more tortoise-like than before. The hangover was worth the night out, you might say, but next time I might drink a bit less vino...
As a novice investor, like you, and one who has an equally difficult time learning from books alone, like you, and one who prefers to learn the game while playing it, like you, I applaud you in your candor in telling me (us) that it might not be the best idea to try to drink all the wine in the world in one night. You have saved me from my own hangover, as I was beginning to consider all those exotic pressings.
There's no substitute for personal experience, but I have no trouble going to school on someone else's bad fortune. Or their good fortune, for that matter.
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