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The Best Investing Advice? Don’t Trust Yourself

I’ve seen this play out in two ways:

1. For retirement, I invest broadly. No single stocks, no market timing—just slow, steady growth.

2. With the R3ciprocity Project, I went all in. And I’ve learned the hard way how risky and unpredictable entrepreneurship really is.

The business press sells you the wrong message—that there’s a formula for success, that you can outsmart the market, or that entrepreneurship is a surefire way to wealth. But the truth? It’s mostly luck, survivorship bias, and a lot of failures you never hear about.

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