Shut Up and Wait: My Upcoming Book on the Timeless Principles to Win at Investing and in Life

20 Years in 2 Hours

Most investing books give you the same old advice: how to pick stocks and mutual funds, how to plan your finances, how to read financial statements, etc. Shut Up And Wait* is different. I will tell you why.

First, this book is a collection of notes I have written to myself over the past 20 years in my pursuit of becoming a better person and investor. Two, this book is not about any secrets or techniques that can help you become a better investor. Instead, it contains the most important time-tested ‘principles’ on investing well while managing yourself in your pursuit of wealth creation and financial freedom. So it is sort of a book of ‘principles.’ Three, Shut Up and Wait goes beyond financial investing. The notes contained in it have helped me in my journey of personal transformation. It contains the larger lessons that I have distilled from my life and investing experiences — lessons that I think everyone young and old will in some ways find useful.

Shut Up an Wait contains the most important principles around money, investing, and the follies of our minds that act as speed-breakers in our journey towards wealth creation and financial freedom. These are essentially the ideas that have been my guideposts for the last 20 years as an investor, which I have compacted into something you can read in less than 2 hours, though that is not how I would like you to read this book (better, just one page a day). I hope you find these ideas useful in your own journey of wealth creation, financial freedom, and personal transformation.

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* The idea of this title – Shut Up and Wait – came from a tweet from Morgan Housel of Collaborative Fund. I checked with Morgan if he would like to ever write a book with this title. He had no plans of doing this and so I sought his permission to use it for this book.