When I first embarked on my investing journey last year, I started out by reading various books on the topic and trying to pick up some skills through the self-taught method. Needless to say, I made quite a number of amateur mistakes along the way, but that’s a story for another day. After making some of these mistakes, I thought that perhaps attending investing courses would help me – after all, I get to learn from the experts, and pick their brains on how I can become a better investor. Unfortunately, I realised what I wanted out of the workshops and what the trainers wanted were two completely different things – while I wanted to learn techniques and skills which I could then execute myself, most of them were more interested in (hard-)selling me a 4-digit course fee instead. Many of these “workshops” were simply previews of a more expensive ......