- Joined
- Aug 5, 2017
A video from Roy on how to become an investor:
Lowlights:
Lowlights:
- He continues to babble nonsense about right-brain and left-brain activity. The evidence is strongly against such a divide. In Roy's case, it is even less valid; all he means is that he sucks at math, and this somehow makes him a creative genius.
- Roy claims that college doesn't teach the skills required to be an investor. This is bullshit. Any business school will offer courses in investment. It is an important aspect of running a business. Perhaps Roy would know that if he weren't a dropout, a loser, and a failure.
- His obsession with surpassing his peers who stayed in school and got good jobs is a driving force behind his thinking. He makes vague (and therefore uncheckable) claims of having done better as an investor than some of his peers who went into medicine, law, and the like.
- He admits to something I'd previously noticed: He takes credit for the rise of stocks that he did not in fact hold onto and make lots of money from. He dropped both Tesla and Bitcoin shares before they appreciated rapidly in value. Sorry, fruitcake, but that doesn't make you a genius investor.
- James Thurber once wrote of a novelist who studied actual dialogue between people in order to make his writing more realistic. He was crushed to learn only one thing: People always say everything twice. They always say everything twice. Roy is at least twice as bad as that; his robotic repetitions make me want to reach into the screen and slap him. Of course, this would be a bad idea, as he is as unshaven as ever.