Learnings from Teaching.

Teaching.

After 300+ hours of preparation, 700+ slides, 15hrs+ of teaching, over 6 sessions in the last 3 weeks…????

These are the 14 lessons and key takeaways from teaching my first ever course “Vision Investing - Beating The Market & Changing the World” ????

1 | Thank you.

Thank you to the participants who were there with me from the very 1st to the final 6th session.

Great kudos for still being interested in learn how to invest despite massive market selloffs.

Without you, your attention, and energy, this would not have happened.

2 | Timing.

The last time I wrote my book was in early 2020, when markets were tumbling, then subsequently markets rallied.

This time round I was preparing and teaching the course in late 2022, again markets are still tumbling.?

Let’s see what happens in 2023 and beyond.

3 | Contrarian.

This was in the midst of one of the biggest selloffs in years and decades.

Many have either lost faith in the stock market, or now think they can’t outperform, and prefer to invest in ETFs.

Definitely not the best time to be doing an investing course, but for those who did and have faith in me, now has a firmer grounding than others. It will be truly be amazing to see how they do in the coming years.

4 | Tough.?

I had previously spent 2 weeks of 12-14 hour days writing my book, followed by 6 months of work post to get it to print.

In teaching, I had spent in excess of 300+ hours over many months of countless weekday nights and weekends, thinking about the flow, and preparing the content.

It was hard, it was very tough. But I had to persevere.

5 | Imperfection.

But the bulk of the work had finally been done.

When I thought I had finished earlier, it never was, until the very final deadline, the time to present.

It is never perfect, and you can always keep improving it.?But if you do so, you never deliver.?

Make it as perfect as you possibly can, and deliver it.

6 | The Journey.

I had originally declared my intention to teach back in late 2021, attending numerous late night courses on Maven, to prepare myself.

But due to personal commitments and family issues, it was really challenging to do so in 1H22, but 2H22 looked doable.

I set the undivided intention in mid 2022 to make it happen no matter what, and it happened.

7 | Support - Part 1

I had the deep support of my wife, who was there beside me, giving me the space I needed to deliver. It was not easy, but I truly appreciate her, and love her for that.

Many thanks to my coach, Diana who got me to be clear over what truly mattered to me, my why, and what I needed to do to make it happen.

7 | Support - Part 2

Grateful for my first-ever Intern, Warren Yang in assisting me with the logistics, and to Chong Ser Jing - Investor and Student Of Life Ser Jing who said yes right in coming onboard as judge in the final presentations, and a great sounding board for many concepts.

A big thank you to Thomas Chua for the many tips, feedback and help in sharing.

8 | Different.

The original intent was to establish a differentiated, but yet a very practical and applicable learning experience.

It had to be backed by strong logic, supported by data and evidence.

I wanted to highlight why certain conventional concepts no longer work, and the alternatives to consider.

The ideas were delivered, from power laws, asymmetry, and skewing of probabilities and returns toward’s one favour.

9 | Give my all.

I did not believe in holding back.?

I shared all that I knew (knowledge), backed up with all that I had (data), in all that I could (time).?

For this round, I decided to give it all back 100%, instead of 50% of net proceeds to the first round.

Money was important, but this was just different, to be able to finally give back.

10 | Helping others.

Know that you cannot help everyone to the same extent, but you can help most to a great extent, which is far more important.

It is far more about the encouragement, support, and that goes a long way.

85% of the signups attended the course, 57% was there every lesson, a big kudos to them. Hurrays!

How you do anything, is how you do everything.?

11 | Fulfilling.

It was very fulfilling to be able to teach and to give back all the same time.

Yet at the same, doing what I really love and am passionate about, investing.

12 | Clarity.

If writing a book, an article or going on a podcast interview is easy, teaching is probably 10 if not 100 times harder, it forces one to have an extreme clarity of thought, and to be able to communicate well and clearly.

It also gave me increased clarity, forced me to teach, and put to paper what had always been?mental models into easily digestible ones.

13 | The Students.

Thank you taking the time to attend and investing in yourself, and having the faith in me to be your teacher, especially in these challenging times.

You will always be my first, batch of students. Thank you for the delightful journey, the enthusiasm, the positivity.

14 | Rest and Recharge.

For now, I will be taking a very well deserved holiday break and rest, before relooking at a 2nd cohort in 2023.

I will probably do it once or max twice a year, depending on interest, the next one could be in the?summer of 2023.

If you are interested to join the next cohort of “Vision Investing”, join the waitlist, you will be notified once registration opens:?

You can also check out my book “Vision Investing: How We Beat Wall Street & You Can, Too!”:?

https://visioncapital.group/vision-investing-book