TIP763: Investing Lessons for My 18-Year-Old Self w/ Clay Finck

You're listening to TIP. I started investing at the age of 18 and frankly, I had no clue what I was doing. Some people told me that investing in the stock market is practically gambling. Some cautioned me to be careful, while others were happy to pitch me on an offshore drilling company as if I had any idea what that actually meant.

In today's episode, I'll share the most important lessons I've learned about investing in the 13 years that followed. When it comes to investing, I've made about every mistake one could make. While I've by no means figured it out, this episode contains the lessons that I wish somebody had told me when I was 18, and didn't know where to turn. In a world that's filled with noise coming from all directions, perhaps there's a newer listener out there who would find some value in one or two of these lessons.

This isn't an exhaustive list, and the whole list just keeps on growing and growing as I make more and more mistakes. I'll also mention that these are of course the lessons that I myself find value in, So just because I see value in them doesn't necessarily mean that they'll be useful for you and what you're trying to achieve. So with that, I bring you today's episode on the investing lessons for my 18-year-old self. Since 2014 and through more than 180 million downloads, we've studied the financial markets and read the books that influence self-made billionaires the most.

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