Mohnish Pabrai: This will save you 10 years of bad investments

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Shaan Puri sets the stage by noting this is round three with Pabrai, elevated as always. Within seconds, Pabrai establishes the foundational investing thesis that will anchor the entire episode: fewer than 1% of active stock pickers are genuinely good, index investors effortlessly beat 90% of the crowd, and the distinction between the two groups is not intelligence but temperament — the capacity to watch paint dry for years without flinching. Shaan then cuts to the HubSpot sponsor read, offering listeners a free PDF of Pabrai's nine investment principles distilled from the transcript. The segment closes with Shaan connecting the first commandment — 'thou shall enjoy watching paint dry' — to the mental models conversation that follows.