TIP763: Investing Lessons for My 18-Year-Old Self w/ Clay Finck
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Stig Brodersen
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🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. I started investing at the age of 18, and frankly, I had no clue what I was |
| 0:08.1 | doing. Some people told me that investing in the stock market is practically gambling. Some |
| 0:13.1 | cautioned me to be careful, while others were happy to pitch me on an offshore drilling company, |
| 0:18.7 | as if I had any idea what that actually meant. |
| 0:21.7 | In today's episode, I'll share the most important lessons I've learned about investing |
| 0:25.7 | in the 13 years that followed. When it comes to investing, I've made about every mistake one could |
| 0:31.7 | make. While I've by no means figured it out, this episode contains the lessons that I wish |
| 0:37.0 | somebody had told me when |
| 0:38.3 | I was 18 and didn't know where to turn. In a world that's filled with noise coming from all |
| 0:44.1 | directions, perhaps there's a newer listener out there who would find some value in one or two of |
| 0:49.2 | these lessons. This isn't an exhaustive list, and the whole list just keeps on growing and growing as I make more and more mistakes. |
| 0:56.9 | I'll also mention that these are, of course, the lessons that I myself find value in. |
| 1:01.2 | So just because I see value in them doesn't necessarily mean that they'll be useful for you and what you're trying to achieve. |
| 1:07.9 | So with that, I bring in today's episode on the investing lessons for my 18-year-old |
| 1:12.5 | self. |
| 1:16.3 | Since 2014 and through more than 180 million downloads, we've studied the financial markets |
| 1:22.5 | and read the books that influence self-made billionaires the most. We keep you informed and prepared for the unexpected. |
| 1:29.5 | Now for your host, Playfink. |
| 1:35.9 | Welcome to the Investors podcast. |
| 1:42.3 | I'm your host, Clay Fink. |
| 1:44.1 | This episode is intended to be like a letter to my younger self. It's not intended to be a one-size-fits-all guide and know that what works for me might not be what works for you. Investing is part art and part science. So there's no exact one way to win the game, but we do need to give ourselves some |
| 2:02.5 | sort of guidelines and frameworks to help tackle the issue of preserving and growing our wealth. |
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