Ayn Rand argues in The Fountainhead that “the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain ... An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average down upon many individual thoughts. The primary act — the process of reason — must be performed by each man alone ... This creative faculty cannot be given or received, shared or borrowed. It belongs to single, individual men.”

If that’s true, it’s a good argument for ultimately making your investment decisions alone...

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