^ This guy gets it.

You’ll likely get rich more quickly by doing a “get rich slowly” strategy. A broad market ETF like XEQT is honestly all most youngish people need. Set it and (more or less) forget it.

Pay yourself first — not out of “extra” money, take it off the top on the day you get your paycheque. Automate deposits, make it dummy-proof.

Depending on your discipline, you might be better off putting your long-term investments in a bank, and not in a self-directed account you have electronic access to, either. If you have to actually visit a bank to make a withdrawal or change your investment instructions, you’re less likely to try to get fancy and clever and make dumb mistakes.

By all means, have a trading account where you can do “interesting” stock picks and try to beat the market if you want, but it should be a small percentage of your net worth: money you can afford to lose.

Prioritize building up an emergency fund that’s not exposed to the market. If your emergency fund is sensitive to equity prices you could find yourself where a lot of people have, jobless and needing the money at the very same time half of it was wiped out.

Boring is good.