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Michael Mauboussin, head of global financial strategies at Credit Suisse, sat down with Motley Fool earlier this year to talk about investing.

In it, he touches on skill versus luck and notes how investors need to have a process.  He says this is comprised of 3 things:

1.  An analytical component (financial statement analysis, etc)
2.  A behavioral component (patterns of mistakes and learning from them)
3.  An organizational component (what's going on in your environment that allows you to be more successful)
 
He admits that evaluating your process is a difficult thing to do, but recommends utilizing an investing journal.  Mauboussin says doing this can fight hindsight bias and creeping determinism.

He touches on numerous other topics and embedded below is the full interview with Mauboussin:



For more from Mauboussin, be sure to read his books, The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing as well as Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition.