If You Can: How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly

Exercises

• Carefully analyze the five simple steps proposed by the author and describe how each can be woven into your own financial story, as if you are threading strands of personal experience into the fabric of future prosperity.
• Create an imaginary portfolio following Bernstein’s recommendations and observe how it changes over time and through market storms, like a ship sailing through shifting waves.
• Reflect on the psychological traps that await investors along the way, and describe how you might avoid them, armed with the wisdom found in the book’s pages.
• Compare different types of investment instruments, like an explorer discovering new lands, and choose those that seem most reliable and promising to you.
• Formulate your own personal investment plan, inspired by the author’s advice, and describe how this plan will help you maintain calm and confidence in the long run.