Humans can be very myopic creatures, especially when it comes to investing. More often than not, we hear ourselves or people around us moaning about the dismal returns of our portfolios just months or even weeks after we start investing. We lament on the less than ideal returns our portfolios are generating and then decide that it's time to tweak the portfolio again, only to then find the new portfolio generating returns which are below our expectations and the cycle kind of repeats over and over again. Hands up if you ever feel this way. There is a good chance that you are not alone. I'm pretty sure many of us feel this way too. But rest assured this is all normal, and let me explain why. In the early stage of your investing journey, the probability of you even getting a positive return is no better than a coin...