Wisdom is its own reward. Data, information, knowledge, opinions, beliefs ... the stuff we fill our heads with that we can't take with us only has meaning and purpose to the extent we pursue truth, facts, logic, beauty and wisdom for its own sake. You know it's true.

"In order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability (which you can’t know) is the central idea of uncertainty." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Reset to the metaphysical "zero" in life, which is a quality of perspective or principle, from which all quantity is a derivative or attribute.

In trading and investing the need to "let go" will eventually overcome the need to "hold on," and vice versa. It happens automatically at some point. Knowing where that inflection point is in yourself is like knowing the peak and trough of your respiration cycle. Keep going...

RT @InvestingCanons: Charlie Munger's recipe for getting rich: 1. Curiosity 2. Diligence 3. Analysis 4. Courage 5. Prudence 6. Patience ht…

Systems force behavior. Our current money system anchors the belief of "not enough" via artificially induced scarcity and struggle in the collective psyche. We're born into a myth of property and ownership. Immersion (analysis) -> Extraction (synthesis)

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.” - Mike Tyson

Nothing humbles you like remembering that time is removing everyone from the board. The people you envy will die. The people you fear will die. The people you perform for will die. You will die too. Once this becomes real, half your anxiety starts looking ridiculous. Mortality is a filter that burns away fake priorities.

"The mind can't comprehend the negative." - Simon Sinek

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The most important truths are self-evident... "You [don't] go anywhere." Live as if you're already dead and always home.

Sounds to me like a case for uniqueness, in which case every one is a great investment opportunity in this marvelous business of life. Pattern recognition is a play thing that points to its source, which keeps playing. Life is a concentrated "solution" we're all diluted into...

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This made me laugh for some reason...

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." — Rumi

For the government, war is called GDP. For the military-industrial complex, war is called revenue and profit. For shareholders, war is called share price growth and dividends. For the financial-industrial complex, war is called wealth transfer, bonds & yield. For the technical-industrial complex, war is called innovation, data and beta testing. For the people, war is called debt and inflation. For the victims of war, war becomes the trauma and radicalisation used to manufacture the next cycle of strategic tension that justifies even more war. The goal is never to win. The goal is to spend as much money as possible. The more destruction, the more reconstruction contracts. The more instability, the more debt issuance. The more chaos, the more resources, infrastructure and trade routes get renegotiated. That’s the business model. You’re not defending democracy or saving the people. You’re defending the terrorism your governments and intelligence networks helped create, fund, arm & exploit. And then the fear from that terrorism gets turned back on you. While you and your children pay the bill. While the media manufactures consent and distorts reality to cheer it along. And if you question any of it, they call you the conspiracy theorist, extremist or domestic terrorist. You are funding terrorism and calling it defending democracy. And most of you don’t even know it. You called it patriotism. You are the product. Get it?

My boyfriend and I sat every evening for over a month at Manikarnika Ghat in Varanasi. Night after night, we watched the funeral fires burn. Skulls cracked. Arms fell from the pyres. Death wasn’t something to avoid. It was something to witness. My lesson: When impermanence is visible, life becomes sacred.

Trading is a performance activity — not an intellectual one. Over-intellectualising it pulls you toward analysis and formulas and perfectionsim, and away from the thing that actually matters, taking risk🥅 TAKING RISK IS THE GAME: You can be the best analyst on the planet, but if your risk-taking capabilities are sub-optimal, your analytical skills are meaningless, and you're not a player🤾, your'e just a commentator🎙️.