Education is one the best to guide you before entering the trading market, if you have a friend who has experience enough to teach you or to guide you before entering the trading market will be great. Also prepare some money that you can afford to lose before starting trading it will help you to prevent any emotion burst 
I think it's better to have that mentor of yours that you know personally. So the chance of fooling and shilling you is quite low and you have someone to go if you don't know what to do. They're likely more honest than those courses and teachers that you might find online. There's the integrity that's very important to know for those type of people because once they fool you, you'll never going back to them and you're already aware of what type of people they are when someone approaches them and asks for help.I think that in the same way if you educate yourself you will have a very difficult criterion that another comes and tells you lies or tries to sell you smoke, when there is a learning given thanks to books, it is a knowledge that will not be taken from you by anyone, keeping this in mind. The more you know, the brain itself will demand more knowledge and there is something very important in speculative markets and that is that the more you know that translates into making more money, and everyone wants to make money, so the best initial investment is knowledge. to be successful in trading.