If you're going to pick stocks, particularly in public,

but even in private, I highly suggest you keep score.

It's a central tenant of this podcast

and indeed of the company behind it, the Motley Fool,

we pick stocks and we keep score, whether we like the

score or not. Because if we like the score well that's why we invest. There's

nothing like the feeling of winning, consistent winning, sometimes spectacular winning, to bring a smile

to your face and maybe some financial freedom to your life, right?

That's why we win. But if you don't like the score, if you lost, what better wake-up call could you ask for?

Because by keeping score, if you find you're not liking the score, you're achieving, change things up.

Maybe there's something as an investor you're not doing enough.

Or maybe there's something suboptimal that you're doing too often. In either case, you probably won't figure this out unless you're keeping score.

So whether you won or whether you lost that keeping score and learning.

We need a score to learn.

We need a score to learn.

Without a score, the learning loop is broken.

And how many people out there, not just in the markets, but in society, are not learning,

learning all that they can because they're not holding themselves accountable.

Dear fools, let's not join their ranks.

And so we pick and we score.

And then, one year later, two years later,

three years later, even sometimes like this week's

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