Read? Minimum of 10,000 hours hard work (2) Few months ago, Uncle8888 showed this chart to a few colleagues what can be achieved from SERIOUS long-term investing and the number of hours we must commit ourselves to up skill our investing knowledge and skills; and to formulate and continuously revise our investing strategies to meet our financial independence goal. This 49 age old colleague has been trading and "investing" for years has a mind flip and now committing many hours of his wake time to up skill himself to become SERIOUS retail investor. Seeing it with our own eyes. Hearing it with our own ears. Feeling that they are like me. We will believe more that this is real! "Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to ......