My wife is an incredible partner.

You may have met her, and probably agree. What you might not know is how strategic I was about meeting that perfect someone.

First - I realized how randomly distributed perfect matches are. I asked a bunch of successful couples how they had met. There was virtually NO pattern - they had met in elevators, on websites, at bars, through friends, church. Meaning - it's truly a numbers game. If I wanted a one in a million woman (which Michell is), I needed to at least try to meet a million women.

So I strategized how to do that. Join EVERY website (back then, there were plenty). Go to parties where I knew very few people. Venture out on odd days of the week to odd places. Talk to everyone, tell them I was looking. I don't think it's an exaggeration that between skimming profiles and in person, I was meeting about 100 times as many prospects as before.

What the hell is a guy who writes (mostly) about investing doing talking about this? Because, friends, INVESTING REQUIRES THE SAME APPROACH.

I've seen people look at three houses to invest in - and pick the best of the three. But why not expand the neighborhoods you look in, take more time (to see more listings), etc?

I met Warren Buffett once. He said, "you want to find an investment that is so obvious it's like shooting fish in a barrel. But the barrel has no water, and the fish are dead". Wise words indeed.