To do remarkably well as an investment trainer, it often helps to have a “Cinderella story”. A typical story starts by showing how difficult the trainer’s circumstances are – maybe they are poor or come from a broken family. Then they talk about how having the proper investment framework can change a person’s destiny. Like Cinderella’s tale, these stories have happy endings sometimes involving lots of travel in their spare time or even a Ferrari on their backyard. My Silver Spoon Story One of the things I wanted to do when I got into this career is NOT to tell a Cinderella story. I started in a position of great privilege – my father was one of the founders of Pet Lovers Centre, and I spent over 30 years of my life living on landed property. I guess a woke millennial would say that my problems were first world problems – as an only child, I knew that everything would eventually be mine. But here’s the problem...