Although it is not my responsibility, I am trying hard enough to give my friend an idea about investing but some of his questions bother me. No matter how much I tried to convince him about investing, he just kept asking me one question over and over again that if I can make a profit from my investment then why can't he make a profit from his investment if he invests. Every time I asked him to learn about investing first, he misunderstood me and told me I didn't want him to invest. Still patient and tried to convince him, I shared with him my beginnings in convincing him about investments. I told him like this that you are getting my support in starting but when I started investing I didn't get other's support or any other investor explained me about investing like this but still I am successful in investing only because of my efforts. I told him you will get all investment support from me but you have to try.
When I ask him about long term investment he tells me if my investment is profitable now why should he hold it long. I cannot convince him that investing is not as easy as he thinks it is. It's not like I invested and then I sold my investment but I invested and again when I got money I increased my investment that's how I increased my investment and held it for a long time only then I am now somewhat successful from my investment. Maybe it will take me some time to explain to this friend that I have to hold on to it for a long time because if I get excited about the questions he asks, I might not be able to give him a full understanding of investing. Realizing this, even after he asked the same question several times, I kept calm and tried to explain it to him again.
One who is interested in learning should spend time on it but one who has no interest in learning I think there is no point in wasting time on him unnecessarily.
Your friend's activities like this reminded me of my childhood when the teacher would try hard to teach me about certain subjects but I would not try to learn them. At that time I did not try to learn the teacher gave me some scolding and the next day took another lesson here the teacher did his work and took his salary at the end of the month only I did not learn from the middle. I cheated then, because of cheating I could not learn about that subject but the loss was mine and not the teacher's. If I had paid attention back then and asked the teacher questions about things I didn't understand, I might have known a lot more than what I know now. I didn't understand then like I do now, if I understood then like now I would never have skipped my studies.
Your friend is not young enough to catch him and teach him about investing. Your friend must be willing to learn, if he is not interested in learning but you are more interested in teaching him, no matter how hard you try to give him good ideas about investing, he will never accept your good ideas.
First discuss the general issues about investment with him directly, tell him that if his money gets damaged after investing then you are not responsible because he has to take the risk of his money. And to clarify the matter you can tell him that the amount of money he invests he should forget the illusion of money anything can happen with this money. If he accepts these and expresses interest in investing, then you spend time on him.
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