Three years into my FIRE journey and the most underrated part nobody talks about is learning to be okay with a boring portfolio When I started taking this seriously I spent an embarrassing amount of time reading about individual stocks, sector rotation, alternative assets, all of it. I wanted to feel like I was doing something smart and active with my money, not just dumping it into index funds like everyone told me to. I tried a small individual stock portfolio on the side for about eight months. I spent probably three to four hours a week reading earnings reports, following news, feeling like I was doing real investing. My returns over those eight months were about 2% below what my boring index fund portion returned over the same period, and that was a relatively calm market. I eventually moved everything into a simple three fund setup and the psychological shift took longer than the financial one. There's this feeling early on that if you're not actively doing something, you're being lazy or missing out.…