Two events that happen recently that I thought are good lessons here. The first one, which I brought to readers attention here on Tony Robbin’s new book on something similar to the all weather portfolio. In the article Barry Ritholtz goes back in time to take a look at some questionable forecasts that he made on the stock market in public interviews (long story short his advice would have cause folks to miss a great bull run in the SP500’s history) The second one, was what I link to my friends on my Facebook on an inspirational Russian born US guy Anton Ivanov,  who shares on his blog and Yahoo Finance how he amassed $1 million dollar by 27 years old through the things that he has done. Some how he was exposed by colleagues in the army and friends questioning how the heck he can have $1 million so ......