Saw a guy today that I graduated high school with. He used to be my math tutor in middle school. I failed miserably at math all through school and he was a whiz at it. He became an accountant and I became an investor. --174.240.xxx.xx

Sometimes smart people have a hard time in the real world. I find that the hard working average people with some street smarts tend to excel at life. Unfortunately I was book smart and not street smart. It took me a long time to get smarter. --65.188.xxx.xxx

Did his math tutoring play a role in your investing? --76.129.xxx.xx

6x6, no. All I really remember about classes in school was thinking that I would never use this cr@p once I got into the real world. Not sure how I knew that in 7th ,8th, 9th grade, but I did. One thing I thought about seeing this guy again today and how his math knowledge led him down his path and mine led me down mine, was his precision and exactness was more in line with accounting. My abstract thinking and day dreaming out the window was more in line with investing. --24.152.xxx.xx

Interesting. He managed the numbers, but they were in paper and he never looked behind the numbers to see what they could do for him. --172.59.xxx.xxx

Being an investor is tough. We don't always have an exact location, instead we know what general direction we are headed. That drives process driven people crazy --24.101.xxx.xxx