Similarly, pass up the free food samples at the supermarket and the jar of jellybeans or cookies in the coffee room at the office (unless they're in individual packages).
Mitchelson and Sit have the portfolio manager titles, but stock picking is really done at weekly five-hour gabfests where 12 people gather around a big jar of jellybeans in Sit Investment Associates' cozy conference room adorned with bamboo wallpaper and an oil painting of foggy mountains west of Shanghai.