July 27, 2014.

I am reluctant to spend time learning how to invest successfully, solely for my own benefit.

I have benefitted from my attempts to teach others, in that teaching successfully requires that one articulate ideas lucidly, whether in spoken conversation, or in writing. And I do aspire to write truthfully.  So, teaching others helps me in that journey. 

There is also the ethical aspect. Just as I helped myself and my family by investing, I may perhaps touch others, who might discover the opportunities and gratification of the investing approach to life. Others may benefit so immensely from understanding that investment is fundamentally, the allocation of your resources, to preserve and grow your capabilities, maximize your potential. And your truly maximal potential will be as directed by your talents and intentions, no others.

I have learned by reading accomplished investors. Their writings are a crucial starting place and continuing education, and it is natural and important that I point my readers to this material. I have read every book I review. My reviews are my personal take on the book, not taken from elsewhere.