
Second guessing is a favourite pastime of most investors. Whenever you see that a marquee investor or popular fund manager bought a stock, you want to know why.
The curiosity to understand the minds of others is an intrinsic part of learning. You learn to think on your own by learning about how others think.
But, most investors fail to learn despite being curious. The reason is simple. When an investor carries set ideas and judgements, his curiosity is used only to criticise. When the motive is only to pick faults, one can easily fail to notice the strengths. At that stage, the curiosity to know what others think fails to create anything positive.
This is a market where one should be very careful and gentle in judging. It is critical to be more curious to learn, and less curious to judge. Time will be the best judge, and it is best left at that.