"A world where you can keep growing and have fun" column currently published on Toyo Keizai ONLINE
Good morning, this is Matsushita.
Recently, I started reading a new book on stock investing.
That book is
“O’Neil's How to Find Growth Stocks.”
As a book on stock investing,
it is often regarded as a classic and a representative textbook,
an extremely famous book, and in fact this is the first time I’ve read it.
I myself clearly need more reading (reflection).
It has only just begun,
but it is a very educational, reputedly excellent book.
However, this book has a total of 621 pages,
and the charts it contains are
extremely difficult to understand, making it a tough read.
I will take a few days to read it,
and afterwards I intend to read it many times over.
While reading this book, I have come to this thought.
In investing, people can continue to grow indefinitely.
Our physical growth,
probably peaks somewhere in our twenties,
and after that it gradually declines.
Intelligence, sensibility, and spirituality,
I think, can continue to grow,
but opportunities to feel that growth are few.
In that sense, investing allows you to experience growth firsthand.
I always tell my students that
success in investing spans decades.
Even during tens of years of success,
we can continue to grow throughout it all.
There are few things as exciting as this.
When you think so, learning and validating investing also become enjoyable, don’t they?
When it’s enjoyable, the probability of success increases further.
Investing aims to profit,
to increase money, which is its primary goal, but
along the way there are various hurdles,
and they relentlessly weed out investors.
Whether you are weeded out by those hurdles
is up to you.
Without being weeded out by the hurdles,
you can continue to grow and enjoy it for a long time.
Feeling that is possible is also something you can achieve
most effectively by reading books.
And now is the season of autumn for reading.
Purchase several investing books
and enjoy new growth.
