One of India’s foremost investment gurus, Sanjoy Bhattacharyya, speaks on lessons learnt about investing from a game of bridge. Through this blog he hopes to point out that most investors attach huge importance to technique, but temperament, common sense and a nose for what’s going on around are worth a lot more. It’s key not to remain in denial about mistakes if one is to succeed as an investor. But the human nature is such that it’s happy to trumpet successes but keen to bury failures. His chief inspiration in putting together this blog, he says, is to highlight the litany of errors that plagued him in the last 30 years and focus on blind spots that seem to get the better of even the finest players, both on the bridge table and in the stock market.