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Reddit’s Top Stocks Beat the S&P by 40%

Buffett-era investing was all about company performance. The new era is about investor behavior.

Sure, you can still make good returns investing in solid businesses over 10-20 years.

But in the meantime, you might miss out on 224.29% gainers like Robinhood (the #6 most-mentioned stock on Reddit over the past 6 months).

Reddit's top 15 stocks gained 60% in six months. The S&P 500? 18.7%.

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You’re More Ready Than You Realize

Every now and then, you get a moment so clear it feels staged. Something happens, you respond almost effortlessly, and only later do you realize: I already knew how to do that. Maybe the situation was new…but the skills weren’t.

That’s the hidden rhythm of a well-lived life.

Experiences that felt random or disconnected suddenly line up like stepping stones, and you find yourself standing exactly where you need to be.

If that’s ever happened to you, take it as a sign—you’ve been paying attention.

And here’s the deeper truth:

This moment isn’t the end of anything. It’s simply the next layer of your preparation for something still ahead.

Life has a way of training you while pretending it isn’t. In the words of Seneca, “The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.” He didn’t mean to live recklessly—he meant to live aware. Aware that today’s experiences will become tomorrow’s wisdom.

This is one of Life’s quiet, beautiful designs:

• Experiences combine to prepare you for new experiences.

  Things you learned in a dozen separate chapters fuse into clarity in the next one.

• Struggles toughen you for challenges you can’t yet see.

  Hardship is never pleasant, but it is wonderfully efficient at building strength you’ll one day need.

• Small, low-stakes decisions train your judgment for high-stakes ones.

  You learn how to evaluate, how to choose, how to see—long before it really matters.

Every lesson becomes a tool.

Every failure becomes a file on your internal hard drive.

Every victory becomes a reference point you can draw on in future storms.

All your life has prepared you for today.

And today—yes, even this ordinary, imperfect, slightly chaotic day—is preparing you for tomorrow.

So the question becomes:

What do we do with this elegant, ongoing process?

You have two options, and only one of them works.

Option 1: Resist the process.

You can stagnate.

Pretend the lesson isn’t happening.

Wait for someone else to fix things or rescue you.

Plato described this as “living in the cave”—shadow-watching instead of acting.

A lot of people choose this path. They blame, they stall, they repeat old mistakes like it’s a hobby.

Option 2: Embrace the journey.

Take notes.

Learn from wins and losses in equal measure.

Pay attention to your patterns.

Study the mistakes of others—it’s far cheaper and easier than learning everything the hard way.

Nearly every high achiever in history—from Marcus Aurelius to Eleanor Roosevelt to Frederick Douglass—shared this trait: they treated life as a teacher. Not a tyrant, not an obstacle, but a teacher. And they learned relentlessly.

Which brings us to the real point:

Lifelong learning is the key.

Even if school bored you half to death, you’ll be glad to know life is more interesting. The curriculum is eclectic, the tuition is variable, and the lessons are custom-tailored to your path.

Pay attention.

Stay teachable.

Honor your past by using what it gave you.

Honor your future by preparing for it, even when you don’t know what it is yet.

Because everything up to this point has led you to right now.

And everything from right now will prepare you for what’s next.

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