I highly recommend Jim Rogers’ books, they are entertaining, funny, and have helped me see investments in a different way. I have read “The Investment Biker”, “Adventure Capitalist”, and “Street Smarts” so far.

If you want to read these book I would recommend reading them in the same order as above. On his first two books, he narrates his experience of traveling throughout the world. Even though the intention of his trips was not to invest, he cannot control his investor self and opens a bank and brokerage account every country where he sees a change.

In his second book, he drives around the world and describes all the countries he visits, and mentions the changes he has seen from last time. This is very interesting because the reader sees all the changes, and is impressive how his predictions were sometimes right.

He mentions in his books that talking with locals and understanding their motives, their points of view, and ways of life, he can make better investments in those countries than a researcher analyst that is just reading about that country while sitting at his desk.

 

Every time I travel I try to hold that same attitude towards investing and started to analyze the country by trying to notice things while going out, analyzing people’s motives, and attitudes.

I have opened a discount brokerage account to invest on my own.