This post was originally shared in my DT Email Newsletter here. 18 years ago, I decided to study materials engineering. Not because I wanted to. But because my mom told me so. An engineering degree has huge prospects – it’s a professional degree, it’s “cool” and you’d make good money. But I didn’t like engineering.  By my second year in university, I hit rock bottom. My grades were a decimal point away from getting kicked out of school. Too many C and D grades. I struggled learning thermodynamics and Phase Diagrams. The first few semesters felt like a slow crawl under barbed wire, through enemy territory, just trying to survive During my second year in university was also the time I was trying to make some pocket money. I dabbled into trading: I learnt Japanese candle sticks, RSI and MACD indicators. I made some money trading and I lost a lot more. At that time, it was only when my good friend...