There are significant, long lasting benefits for you resulting from you learning about how the finance and equities markets work and learning how to invest on your own.

Here are some of them –

1. Your eyes are opened to the reality of cause and effect relationships on a global scale. 

2. You learn the language of finance and business and begin to think in financial and business terms. 

3. Over time, you will no longer run after the ball.  You will begin to be able to predict where it is ultimately going to land and position yourself advantageously. 

4. You will meet and have a chance to mature your emotions of fear and greed. 

5. You will discover the names and identity of successful people who have gone before you and be challenged with how they thought. 

6. If you dig deeper, you will be able to learn what successful people have done, the obstacles that they had to overcome to achieve their objectives, and some key steps that they took to overcome obstacles. 

7. You will also have the chance to learn from the failures of others before you and perhaps avoid similar mistakes. 

8. You will know when you are hearing truth about finance and business.  It will be easier for you to detect untruth and ultimately unprofitable ventures,  hopefully before you have committed yourself. 

9. There will be a chance for you to learn to become content with what you have achieved, when you recognize the carnage that discontentment has brought others. 

10. You will learn that you are not always right and how to minimize your risks and the cost of being wrong. 

11. Financially, you may have a chance to create and multiply your wealth. 

12. Even if you do not receive the immediate financial benefit of this work in your life, your children and your grandchildren may benefit from your work and have opportunities that they may never have had without it.  Such benefits may be be profound and completely unpredictable.