I really limit myself to

limit myself to any areas of interest.

I don't limit myself to the types of ideas,

whether it's some type of growth idea or whether I feel like it's a value

idea or there's a dividend idea. I mean I like to keep my universe as broad as possible as an investor.

I'm Mary Long and that's Jason Moser, one of our senior analysts here at the

Fool who leads up our virtual revolution service and a number of other foolish portfolios. I caught up with Jason earlier this week to learn a bit more about how he found his way here and what's shaped his investing philosophy.

We also discuss why he owes so much of his happiness to golf, how being a young dad set the stage for an early investing success, and why it pays dividends to stay curious.

Jason, I've got the privilege of being tasked with rounding up a number of different fools and analysts from around the company and kind of chatting with them about how they wound up where they are, how they got into investing, how they formed their investment thesis, and so of course wanted to chat with you.

How, when did you start investing? I guess is maybe where I'd like to begin. Was it a

hobby? Was it a professional career right off, right off the bat for you?

I mean, it was definitely a hobby. I sort of, I've had a few jobs along my way to ultimately

getting here to the Motley Fool but yeah I started investing I learned about it

from my father when I was younger. I specifically remember conversations we would have

when he drove me to school in the mornings

when I was in eighth grade.

So in that general sort of 14 year age range we would just talk about stocks that he

knew of he's a physician by trade but always enjoyed investing and and he had

you know some some interesting perspective

because he's a doctor he had some interesting perspective on health care and and I

remember telling me about some of his winners and it just was always fascinating to

me that you could take your money and grow it.

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