When I first started investing a decade ago, investing was a really foreign and daunting topic. Unfortunately fifteen years of education from primary school to university didn’t teach me how to manage my money at all – which really sucks because the only way I learned was through some of my own failures. Many people think investing is not really for newcomers because of how volatile the market is – it goes up slowly and then nosedives quickly – resulting in a significant paper loss. We cash out and sit out of the market, only to see it bounce back harder. We are loss-averse after all, and when we see our portfolio in the red we get emotionally stricken and make bad irrational decisions. It’s perfectly common to buy high and sell low if we approach investing with exactly that kind of  wrong mindset. How to go about investing starts with the why....