Investing Positively in Lifelong Learning?

The start of 2017 has been especially busy for my work. Well it should be the same for all of you right? Despite that, I am still trying to take time off every week to read The Economist which helps to give me a well-summarised global outlook. Recently I found this article related to Lifelong Learning to be rather thought-provoking.

Well, as a quick takeaway, a chinese proverb will perfectly sum up the essence of the above article:  活到老，学到老 (Live and Learn or Lifelong Learning).

In line with this, I view my investment journey to be a lifelong learning process and part of that process is investing my time to engage in active discussions on facebook. Recently, in one of the discussion, some started to attack each other’s views and ideas, maybe because the views had not flowed well with their own chain of thoughts. I chipped in my fair share of thoughts as well:

I do not believe in a single investment strategy that is the best. Ultimately, our aim as investors is to improve our investment knowledge and skills to grab money from Mr Market. 

One famous quote from the previous Chinese President Deng Xiao Ping: 黑猫白猫抓住耗子就是好猫 (It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.) If a investment strategy is able to help you to make money legally, good for you! Will it work for another person? Hmm..😐.. Likewise, will another person's successful investment strategy work for you? I guess the answer can be found in your investment report card. 😉 

For me, the idea of lifelong investment learning is to help sharpen my investment knowledge. Hence, active exchange of views from various angles will certainly be beneficial in broadening my perspective. 

Wouldn't it be better if our time and energy can be positively invested in uncovering merits that can be used to strengthen own? 

Together, let us all Go & Huat ah!

GoHuat

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