Puri: Great investors read heavily just to avoid overtrading
Shaan Puri · I put 80% of my money in the S&P after a billionaire investor told me not to · May 11, 2026 · at 19:21
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr discuss why top investors like Warren Buffett emphasize reading habits and non-work hobbies.
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“It might be That one of the biggest leaks in investing is too much activity. And the remedy for too much activity is actually to just busy yourself with bridge and books and playing pickleball and doing other things so that you are not prone to just sitting there and pushing buttons. Cause it's the pushing buttons. That's the problem. And so it might be that reading, it might not even matter what you actually are reading, but just simply that it takes you away from constant activity is actually the best part of the reason why all these great investors read so much.”
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