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I can't disagree with anything you have said (in fact, much food for
thought) though I used the phrase "but you have to know before hand
which will bother you more..." because the original question was posed
that way.
Understood, the initial question creates a problem, because it presupposes
that everyone is bothered by these things in some way and this frames the
conversation. If I was to say I don't concern myself with losses and don't
care about missed opportunities, would you understand? Would you think I was
lying?
You see you don't need to know beforehand which will bother you more unless
you approach life as an exercise in getting away from things you don't like.
Or I should say I don't need to know beforehand, but you obviously do need
to know. So it sounds like you should answer these questions yourself. Which
bothers you more?
Then for the next question. If you know which bothers you more, then what
are you going to do about it? Never trade? Cause you will always have losses
and you will never catch every opportunity. Either way you're screwed. Or
else you accept that you must be bothered by something so you will strive to
eliminate the thing that bothers you most, so that you are bothered as
little as possible. Regardless you live your life in a perpetual state of
being bothered or in fear of being bothered.
Systems can be created and in the hands of one person a system may
succeed (make profits) and in the hands of another person fail (not
make profits).
Why?
One car, two drivers,
Driver one gets from point A to point B successfully.
Driver two does not get from point A to point B successfully, crashes the
car trying and kills three passerby.
Who is at fault, the car, or the driver?
Q. Why did driver two fail?
A. Because he does not know how to drive.
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