Becoming A Winner
There are two aspects to becoming a winner: the attainment of mastery and the belief that one can win and succeed. You can win without mastery but that is unrepeatable luck. Being a winner is the combination of mastery and…
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Mental and Physical Health In Late Stage Capitalism: A Review Of Gabor Mate’s The Myth of Normal
After reading Marcus Aurelius’s Mediations, I turned my attention to Gabor Mate’s The Myth Of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing In A Toxic Culture. Mate is a well known physician who has previously written a number of books on specific…
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Stoicism Versus Buddhism On The Power And Limits Of The Mind
In my first quarter at UC – San Diego in the Fall of 1995, my suitemates dragged me to a bookstore. At the time I was a washed up former athlete filled with anxiety and self doubt drifting aimlessly through…
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Why I Won’t Sell WMT Despite The Fact That It’s Overvalued and Overextended; Old Partridge
It was never my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting – Jesse Livermore In Reminsiscences of a Stock Operator, Jesse Livemore recounts the lesson he learned from a character called Partridge. While the…
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Psychoanalyzing The Market
On Tuesday afternoon, I experienced a wave of anxiety over my market positioning. I own long term treasuries, consumer staples and other defensive stocks and am short many of the large tech stocks that have been powering the market higher…
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Revisiting Thursday
It’s been a few days since last Thursday’s stunning reversal giving us some time to sort out what it means. As predicted some found technical analogies to support the idea that the price action suggested a bottom was near. The…
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Memories Of Irv Yalom
I just finished Irv and Marilyn Yalom’s book A Matter of Death and Life (2021) about Marilyn’s death from cancer and Dr. Yalom’s struggle to continue on after. In alternating chapters, Irv and Marilyn write about her decline until death…
