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This is Optimal Finance Daily. Downhill Racing meets

value investing by Vitaly Kassanelson of contrarianedge.com. I'm a skier. When someone says this,

you assume he or she is good. Well, I thought I was good. I was not Lindsay Vaughn,

but I had the technique down. I'd be the fastest person going down the mountain, always waiting

for my friends at the bottom. Then at the beginning of last season, I went skiing with my kids

at Vale. It had snowed non-stop for a few days.

Vale is a very large resort, and the mountain crew could not keep up with the snow. So I found

myself skiing on unusually ungroomed slopes in powder more than knee-deep. Suddenly,

something changed. I could not ski. I could barely make turns.

I was falling multiple times per run. My kids, including my nine-year-old daughter, Hannah,

were now waiting for me as I dug myself out of pile after pile of snow. My technique, along with my confidence, was gone.

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