Swiatek Reveals How Being ‘Control Freak’ Holds Her Back From Investing Earned Millions

Iga Swiatek worked her way to a very privileged economic position in life, and she’s very careful with her hard-earned money.

Investing is such an interesting topic because it’s become quite popular among athletes and celebrities. We’ve seen many current and former players pivot into business once they hang up the racquet, and while Swiatek can see the appeal, she’s very careful about it.

Part of that comes from her ‘control freak’ nature, which prevents her from doing something without doing the necessary research to understand everything that’s going on. In a talk with PZU Grupa, Swiatek admitted that her tendencies hold her back from investing.

Generally when it comes to investing, I had a lot of thoughts last year, because there were a lot of offers and opportunities, but so far most of them stressed me out a lot, and that’s because I didn’t have a full economics education.

And I’m a person who is, in short, a control freak, so everything has to be very organized. I have to understand everything before I make any decision, so it’s not easy for me to make this decision.

Despite that, it’s something she’s very keen to explore in the future. The keyword in all of that is future because she’s consulted a few knowledgeable people and settled on simply raising capital for the time being and then pivoting into business once she understands more of the world. With years comes experience, and that’s the plan.

And after talking to several people who wrote books about investing and are celebrities in this world, but also just very good people who wanted to advise me, I decided that while I’m still young and don’t have much knowledge about it, then I will just raise capital. And I will start investing when I simply have a little more time and space in my head.

For now, Swiatek is very committed to tennis, and who knows, the people’s favorite for the Australian Open could raise some more capital by winning the event. Having business take away her attention from tennis wouldn’t be very productive right now.

And above all, because. I’m the kind of person who just invested in something that’s a little riskier. I would check what it looks like every few days and I think it might take some focus away from what is actually most important to me.