Investing as is any endeavour is an inside to outside process - before listening to anyone you have to be aware of your physiological strengths and weaknesses If you are self aware you can be honest with yourself to find this and if not look to your parents especially the one you are most like and you will in tendency inherit the same base line strengths and weaknesses Before you do anything this is the most important basis in your process This can be used for everything from health to relationships to work choices Ie if you have a love for chocolate or lazy then you would choose a gym routine that uses shorter workout high impact with less days and where you leave calories for a chocolate each day It’s not about the ideal routine for everyone most can never start if that’s the case apart from the highest agency people but there is an ideal for each person which they can get to via iteration That’s why every investment theory, every health routine has its total believers because people end up just trying things and something will fit their physiological base But if you start from basis of understanding your base physiological position you can navigate and use everyone’s learnings and mould them to you because you stop viewing the programs as the only way but as reflections of their own being an that allows you to understand why they structure a certain way based on their own shortcomings or psychology Hence as shortcut I always suggest to find people further ahead than you that are most similar to you in temperament for making money, in fitness the people who had same bad habits or body shape etc etc Once you understand this you can change your life in every domain For me that’s why I avoid Goggins style extroverted high agency people who can just flip a switch from nothing to everything as I cannot relate nor follow. Instead I look for Ambivert balanced calm long term lifestyle oriented people.