Support and Resistance
Looks like my Wii Tennis rating found support at 1000, and is breaking out. :-)
Looks like my Wii Tennis rating found support at 1000, and is breaking out. :-)
“You will have to start intellectually, but do not cling to it. When I say, ‘Do,’ try doing. [...] We can go on talking for years and years, your mind can be stuffed with many things, but that is not going to help. Rather, it may harm you because you will begin [...]
“Look at a tightrope walker. He is evidently and completely concentrated, because if he were not, he would fall to the ground. His life is at stake, and it is only perfect concentration which can save him. Yet do you believe that his thought and his imagination are occupied with what he [...]
“One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.”
So I know the blog updates have slowed down in the last week or so. I’ve been away for awhile, on vacation in Half Moon Bay, CA (near San Francisco). I stayed at the Ritz-Carlton there, and I had a great time. Highly recommended. Basically, you pay them a lot [...]
Way back in Plato’s day, they knew that you can’t think clearly in the presence of fear and greed:
“… when a man has great joys or sorrows or fears or desires, he suffers from them, not merely the sort of evil which might be anticipated–as, for example, the loss of his health or property which [...]
Even Plato knew that people who are successful at their day jobs can’t simply switch to daytrading with instant success. He writes:
“At last I went to the artisans. I was conscious that I knew nothing at all, as I may say, and I was sure that they knew many fine things; and here [...]
“When I discovered that women who believe in ‘new age’ ideas will find you incredibly interesting if you mention Hilbert Space, I’m pretty sure Alzo Sprach Zarathustra was playing in the background, like when the Ape-man in 2001 discovered that you can kick ass using bone clubs.”
(from his blog post: Applications of Financial Ideas to [...]
Eric wrote to point out this comic to me (click to see the full-sized version):
It’s actually pretty accurate. :-)