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Lynch argues that corrections of 10% or more happen roughly every few years and that bear markets are a normal part of owning stocks. Investors who sell in fear during these drops lock in losses and miss the recoveries. The real risk is not the decline itself but being scared out of stocks at the wrong moment, so an investor's temperament matters more than their ability to predict the market.
Before buying a stock, you should be able to explain in about two minutes, in plain language a child could follow, why you own it, what has to happen for it to succeed, and what could go wrong. If you can't state the story that simply, you don't understand the company well enough to hold it through bad news. You recheck the story every few months, and the stock stays in the portfolio only as long as the story is still intact.
Lynch found some of his profitable picks in dull or disliked sectors such as savings-and-loans, cyclical auto makers, and unglamorous retailers and restaurants that analysts and institutions were overlooking. He treated neglect as a starting point rather than a reason to buy, checking that the price was low relative to earnings and assets, that the company had the financial strength to survive, and that it held a sound competitive position. Visiting companies and reading their filings helped him find these cases before the consensus did.