In investing, things are most of the time not definite.

I make a very poor salesman because straight away, people can detect a lack of confidence. I would rather say, my face most of the time, show how uncomfortable I am with things.

That is why we have advisers because they don’t have this problem of mine. At work, I kept the deepest, darkest part of what I know about the markets and investing firewalled from them.

This is so that they can function. If you know too much, it affects your ability to push a good narrative.

My friends who teach investing courses, trading courses probably cannot share too many of these uncertainties. Placed enough uncertainties in a prospects head and they will not make a decision.

Outside of these two groups, I hear folks having high conviction in companies that will never die, strategies that will always work,