One of the most underrated advantages in life is learning to shift from a consumer mindset to an investor mindset. Just look around. Almost everything you interact with is a product sold by one person to another. If you train yourself to notice what people are using, talking about, or obsessed with, you can often spot trends before sophisticated investors have time to connect the dots. Here are a few personal examples: $NVDA: When ChatGPT first launched, I was still in college. It felt like a total cheat code for assignments and clearly marked a paradigm shift. Everyone was talking about it yet it never crossed my mind to ask who benefits most from this. NVIDIA is now up nearly 10x since then. $RBLX: My roommate got into Roblox and kept telling me about the crazy player numbers and how massive it was with younger audiences. I couldn’t understand the appeal. It felt like pure brain rot. But that didn’t matter. Roblox stock has appreciated by nearly 3x in the past year. $CELH: I ran out of pre-workout and started drinking Celsius instead before my lifts. Not long after $CELH doubled. Pay attention.