Be Bad at Something

One of the biggest mistakes adults make is believing they should already be good at everything.

Kids don’t think that way.

They fall off bikes. Miss shots. Strike out. Fail tests. They laugh, get back up, and try again.

Somewhere along the way, we become afraid to look stupid.

I think that’s one of the fastest ways to stop growing.

I know because failure has been one of the biggest teachers in my life.

When I was younger, I constantly felt like I was failing. I was adopted (by a loving family) and spent years wondering why someone would give up their own child. By the time I was twelve, I had lost much of my family to muscular dystrophy. I was bullied at school because I was a biracial kid being raised by white parents, and because my mother was disabled. Everywhere I looked, I felt like I didn’t belong.

Then I found BMX.

The funny thing about riding bikes is you fail constantly. You don’t land a trick the first time. Or the tenth. Sometimes not even the hundredth. You crash. You get hurt. You get back up.

You learn that failure isn’t the opposite of success. It’s the admission price.

That lesson carried me through more than bike riding. It carried me through addiction, recovery, and rebuilding my life after I had lost almost everything. Looking back, every meaningful chapter of my life began with me being terrible at something.

Including trading.

That’s why I think everyone should deliberately be bad at something.

Learn to surf.

Pick up playing an instrument.

Take a dance class.

Try painting.

Learn a new language.

Not because you’ll become the best at it, but because it reminds you what it’s like to be a beginner. It teaches humility. It builds resilience. It gives you permission to fail without letting failure define you.

Most people aren’t stuck because they lack talent.

They’re stuck because they’re trying to protect an image of themselves as someone who already has it all figured out.

The truth is, nobody does.

Growth has always lived on the other side of discomfort.

So this weekend, go be bad at something.

You might embarrass yourself.

You might fail.

You might even discover something that changes your life the way riding bikes changed mine.

After all, the best things that have ever happened to me started with not being very good at them.

Commodity investors know this better than most.

The theme can be right for years, and the trade can still test your patience the whole way.

Copper can have the best supply story on the board. Uranium can have the strongest long-term setup. Energy can be breaking out of a multi-year base.

But if the market is not rewarding risk yet, even the right commodity trade can sit there, chop around, or fail before the real move begins.

That is where Grant Hawkridge starts.

Before he buys anything, he checks one 0-to-100 number to see whether the market is paying him to take risk or charging him for it.

Only then does he follow the money into the strongest sectors, groups, and stocks showing real leadership.

On Wednesday, July 15 at 8PM ET, Grant is walking through the full process live, including the documented WDC trade that paid 645.6%.

If you are watching copper, uranium, energy, miners, or the next leg of the resource cycle, this is the market filter worth seeing.

Watch Grant walk through the Green Light process.