Learning to play the guitar is a journey. At first, you may not know where to start. You won't understand everything. But you will learn along the way.<ul><li>Start early. Learn what you need when you need it. When you come across a theory, then only learn it.</li><li>Put skin in the game. The more you play the guitar, the more you'll learn. When you have skin in the game, it will accelerate your learning.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Learn from your mistakes. Don't be concerned if you don't get everything at first.</li></ul>

Learning to invest is like learning to play the guitar

<ol><li>Try to find some value to connect with. Try to introduce yourself to a few different things. For example, are you going to be a short or long term investor? Are you going to be a fundamental investor?</li><li>Get your hours in. To be good at something, you need to put in 10,000 hours.</li><li>Do your research to get that real-life experience quickly. You'll make and lose money. That's the only way you're going to learn.</li></ol>

How to learn to invest

<ul><li>Test Your Skills. Enter an investment contest for six months to see how you function when the heat is on.</li><li>Don't panic or analyse the news. The bad news is temporary, but the good news is already priced in the stock.</li><li>Do research once a week. First, find reliable sources, then use those.</li><li>Use The Value Line. It is great for someone who wants to start investing.</li></ul>

Investing tips

Don't be afraid to ask somebody to teach you to invest or give a few tips.Find someone that you know that could help you. It could be a book or someone you connect with, how they invest or how they write.

Find a mentor to help you along the way

When you make money from stocks, create buckets for your funds.<ul><li>Set money aside for taxes.</li><li>Create a rainy day bucket for expenses. You will need to create a hedge against possible risks.</li><li>Reinvest the money in stocks.</li></ul>

Setting up buckets to manage your wealth

Listen to The Investing for Beginners Podcast - Your Path to Financial Freedom on Spotify. We make the complicated stock market simple. We show you how to take advantage of the emotions in the market with lessons from successful strategies such as value investing and dividend growth investing, with a few elements of growth investing and trend following.