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Three lessons from two failures

It is impossible to be an investor and not make mistakes. The aim should be to reduce rather than eliminate them. Because humans learn more from failure than success, this requires a painful examination of what went wrong, starting with a question: How can you tell whether an investing decision was wrong?

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