More for Fun sake, the similarities in cooking and investing
Cooking: It is easy to cook a edible meal for people to eat, but if I want a sumptuous meal that makes me a celebrity chef, think that is kinda of tough.
Investing: It is easy to learn how to invest, but if I want to be the next celebrity investor, that is a different ball game. Learning to invest to earn some returns to beat inflation, in particular is not really that tough, but if I insist of XIRR of X%, then again, the ball game is different. Just like cooking for my mother and starting a business of cooking at the kopitiam is 2 different matters
C: If I marinate my ingredients earlier and longer, it taste better.
I: Invest earlier and let compounding work for me.
C: The fresher the ingredient, the easier to have the natural ......