There are investment lessons in all walks of life. Even prostitution, one of the oldest professions on the planet, has some invaluable investment lessons to teach us. All we have to do is embrace our innate evolutionary nature, and hence be willing to absorb and process the [often not so] hidden lessons of life. Like you said: “Improvise, Adapt and Overcome”, and above all: use your dang it brain. Truth be told, even our freakin' incompetent, arrogant, and self-serving politicians and institutions have a thing or two to teach us about life, investment, and the art of strategy -- a negative experience is, nonetheless, a lesson learned.
That said, I'm sorry to say that your discourse on investing---albeit essentially a variation on Musashi's "The Book of Five Rings" and Sun Tzu's "The Art of War"---is fundamentally flawed (or rather, misplaced). And I'll tell you why.
Unlike trading, investing is inherently a passionate, optimistic, and value-based activity. One must feel passionate, and be optimistic, about the future performance/value of a certain financial instrument in order to 'invest' in it. It's like a relationship, a marriage, if you will; yes you must use your brain and strategize, but you have no business being in it, if you're not passionate about it, or at the very least don't feel optimistic about it's outcome. Passion and optimism are fundamental components of any investment activity. But historically speaking, mindless passion and baseless optimism have also proved to be the last nails in the coffins of many an investor. That's why so many of us happen to be traders and not investors, per se.
Everything that you've stated/asserted in this article is absolutely true of 'trading', but completely misplaced with regards to 'investing'.
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There are investment lessons in all walks of life. Even prostitution, one of the oldest professions on the planet, has some invaluable investment lessons to teach us. All we have to do is embrace our innate evolutionary nature, and hence be willing to absorb and process the [often not so] hidden lessons of life. Like you said: “Improvise, Adapt and Overcome”, and above all: use your dang it brain. Truth be told, even our freakin' incompetent, arrogant, and self-serving politicians and institutions have a thing or two to teach us about life, investment, and the art of strategy -- a negative experience is, nonetheless, a lesson learned.
That said, I'm sorry to say that your discourse on investing---albeit essentially a variation on Musashi's "The Book of Five Rings" and Sun Tzu's "The Art of War"---is fundamentally flawed (or rather, misplaced). And I'll tell you why.
Unlike trading, investing is inherently a passionate, optimistic, and value-based activity. One must feel passionate, and be optimistic, about the future performance/value of a certain financial instrument in order to 'invest' in it. It's like a relationship, a marriage, if you will; yes you must use your brain and strategize, but you have no business being in it, if you're not passionate about it, or at the very least don't feel optimistic about it's outcome. Passion and optimism are fundamental components of any investment activity. But historically speaking, mindless passion and baseless optimism have also proved to be the last nails in the coffins of many an investor. That's why so many of us happen to be traders and not investors, per se.
Everything that you've stated/asserted in this article is absolutely true of 'trading', but completely misplaced with regards to 'investing'.