Five books every investor should read in 2022!

4 min read | January 03, 2022 10:41 PM EST | By Toshiva Jain

Highlights

  • There is one thing common among the top investors of today: the habit of reading.
  • People aspiring to make progress in the investment world in 2022 should know the books to pick to frame the right mindset to embark on a beautiful investment journey for the year ahead.

Everybody wants to become a millionaire but not everyone does! Have you ever wondered what those first-generation millionaires would have done to achieve their place in the world today? One needs to think smarter and deeper to achieve heights in the present hyper-competitive world.

There is one thing common among the top investors across the world: the habit of reading, yes! One might wonder, what reading has to do with the investment business. But billionaires like Warren Buffett believe in extensive reading. He once said, “I just sit in my office and read all day.”

From Elon Musk to Warren Buffett, most big names are avid readers. Thus, anyone who is aspiring to make progress in the investment world in 2022 should know the books to pick to frame the accurate mindset to embark on a beautiful investment journey for the year ahead.

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Here is the list of the five books one must tap their hands on in order to become a sound investor in 2022:

  • The Daily Stoic: Warren Buffett and in fact many other world’s leading investors are Stoics to a great extent. A sound investment is not merely about calculations, predictions and insights; it's about your mindset, and emotional and mental stability. You need to learn how to discipline your mind in order to react wisely to market fluctuations. There are hundreds of books available on Stoicism, but one can start their journey with The Daily Stoic.

Read well to invest well

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  • Mad Money Journey: If you are an ametuer in the business and want to learn about the financial games of the market with some thrill, Mad Money Journey is the book for you. It's a book of financial adventures that reveals the deep relationship between man and money.
  • The Little Book of Behavioural Investing: A man’s psyche plays a crucial role in whatever decisions he makes in a day. Thus, it becomes significant to understand the psyche first before bidding money. The Little Book of Behavioural Investing is a perfect guide to understand the common pitfalls to evade while indulging in the investment world.
  • The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life: If one is looking to read for building a sound investment career, how can they not read a biography of Warren Buffett, the champion of all investors. The Snowball is a book that showcases the journey of Buffett behind those flashy news articles on investments worth millions of Dollars.
  • 100 Mistakes that Changed History: As they say it well, “learn from the elders and their blunders.” You wouldn’t want to commit the same blunders that big minds have committed in the past that collapsed entire economies and the course of the world changed. Of course, these are enormous, but you can seek advice and guidance regarding what not to do!

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Bottom line

The present world is unpredictable, especially during the pandemic when the virus is leading the course of the world market. However, if you play your cards right, you can excel in the investment business. You just need perseverance, right thinking and as Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger and other world leading investors believe, read as much as you can and excel to the best.


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