TIP732: The Mindset and Skills That Build Investing Legends w/ Ian Cassel

You're listening to TIP. Today's guest is Ian Castle, whose fund has outperformed the S<unk>P 500 afterfees since its inception in 2019. Now what sets Ian apart is his position in the investing community as someone who truly wants to elevate other investors. One trait that I've always admired in Ian is just how broad of a thinker he is and how good he is at connecting disparate ideas. In today's episode, we're going to see how Ian links golf and jiu-jitsu with one big idea, which is what separates good, great, and goat investors.

Ian's been journaling and reflecting on a variety of topics based around this theme now for years. And in this conversation, he'll lay out his detailed thoughts. We'll look at the two performance metrics that every investor is judged upon, which is time and return, and why they're the most potent performance indicators to assess skill. We'll look at what track record qualifies you as a good, great or goat investor as well. The initial idea for this concept was bred out of Ian's thinking on the skills of investing.

Ian has distilled stock investing into five key skills that must be sharpened in order to succeed. The big difference between being great and being world class is just a few degrees of differences in these skills. We'll go over some of the unique and underappreciated talents that Ian has observed from some of the goats that he's researched. And along the way, Ian's going to share some of the real-world traps that he's fallen through in his decades of experience in the markets.

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