Reasons to Pass: A Guide to Making Fewer and Better Investments

In The Business World, Confidence Is The Personality Trait Correlated With The Short-term Success That Often Drives Decisions. Confident Managers Become Ceos. Confident Investors Become Portfolio Managers And Successfully Gather Assets. Yet Confidence Is Illusory; It Feels Good But Doesn't Do The World's Uncertainty Justice. Accepting The World As It Is -- Ambiguous, Confusing, And Unpredictable -- Requires One To Rightsize Their Ego. Accepting This Stimulates The Use Of Society's Least Acceptable Phrase, I Don't Know. It Fosters Discovery And Sometimes Answers -- But Quite Often, Acknowledgement That Answers Are Out Of Reach. Too Many Investment Books Praise The Confidence And Conviction Demonstrated By Successful Investors. Reasons To Pass Is At Its Core A Book That Reminds Us, Professional And Retail Investors Alike, To Rightsize Our Egos. Only Then Can We Optimize Long-term Decision Making When Building Investment Portfolios. The Author Aims To Bring Investing Back To The Basics, Helping Readers Better Navigate The Complexities Of Investing, Bringing Clarity To The Long-term Elements Of The Process-- Provided By Publisher.