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The more things change…

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on August 24, 2025August 24, 2025
  • Part 3: Thoughts for the Individual Investor

Before practice, opportunity, and luck can combine to create expertise, the would-be expert needs to demythologize the achievement of top-level performance, because the notion that genius is born, not made, is deeply ingrained

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Investing expertise can be learned

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on July 25, 2021July 27, 2021
  • Part 3: Thoughts for the Individual Investor

It is only by working at what you can’t do that you turn into the expert you want to become.

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How to become a skilled investor

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on August 9, 2020August 9, 2020
  • Part 3: Thoughts for the Individual Investor

The subjective confidence we have in our personal level of skill is absolutely no guide as to whether we actually have the skill.

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