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Norman, I'm
surprised at you! You haven't heard of Nasrudin? Nasrudin is the
Sufi Mullah whose exploits are told in various books by Idries Shah, including
"Wisdom of the Idiots" (appropriate trading title), and "The Exploits of the
Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin / The Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla
Nasrudin". There are hundreds of Nasrudin "crazy wisdom" stories, many are
quite wonderful. You in particular would really like this
guy!
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My favorite
Nasrudin story, highly applicable to trading:
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<SPAN
class=765495717-27032002>Nasrudin is crouched on the
street, peering at the ground. A man walks up and asks him what he's
doing. "I'm looking for my
watch."
<SPAN
class=765495717-27032002>The man asks "Where did you lose
it?"
<SPAN
class=765495717-27032002>"I lost it on Fifth
Street."
<SPAN
class=765495717-27032002>"But this is Third Street. Why are you
looking for it here?"
<SPAN
class=765495717-27032002>"The light's
better."
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Here's a few
more samples, copied from various web sites (Google search on "Nasrudin"),
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Nasrudin walked into a
teahouse and declaimed, "The moon is more useful than the sun." "Why?" he was
asked. "Because at night we need the light more."
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color=#0000ff>
<FONT
color=#000000>The Mulla approached the very beautiful woman at the market and
said, "You know I've lost my wife here in the market. Can you talk to me for a
couple of minutes?""Why?" asked the woman."Because every time I talk to
a beautiful woman," explained the Mulla, my wife appears out of
nowhere."
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face=Arial>
A neighbour came to
Nasrudin, asking to borrow his donkey. "It is out on loan," the teacher replied.
At that moment, the donkey brayed loudly inside the stable. "But I can hear it
bray, over there." "Whom do you believe," asked Nasrudin, "me or a
donkey?"
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color=#000000>
<FONT
color=#000000 size=4>Two men came before Nasrudin when he was magistrate. The
first man said, "This man has bitten my ear -- I demand compensation." The
second man said, "He bit it himself." Nasrudin withdrew to his chambers, and
spent an hour trying to bite his own ear. He succeeded only in falling over and
bruising his forehead. Returning to the courtroom, Nasrudin pronounced, "Examine
the man whose ear was bitten. If his forehead is bruised, he did it himself and
the case is dismissed. If his forehead is not bruised, the other man did it and
must pay three silver pieces
I'm sure
there is much applicable to trading here...
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color=#0000ff>
David
-----Original Message-----From: Norman
Winski [mailto:nwinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]Sent: Wednesday, March 27,
2002 9:35 AMTo: realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject: Re:
[RT] PSYCH:Capacity to Learn
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Ric,
How many people do you know named "<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Nasrudin"? Did you create this character
yourself or from what book did you derive it?
Thanks,
Norman
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black">From:
ric
ingram
To: <A
title=realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
href="mailto:realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 6:22
AM
Subject: [RT] PSYCH:Capacity to
Learn
Hi,Most of us have a capacity to learn
and improve. Often, however, hope for improvement is
confused with capacity to learn.It is very different - this email is
about one common source of that difference.We all have inner
tendencies that get in our way when we want to learn.Often we seek
diversion as a priority over genuine aspiration for knowledge.This
need for diversion shows up as one or more
of: - "I
came here for
fun.", - "I
know how I learn
best", - "I
want to learn in this
sequence", - ...and
it tends to get in the way of learning.As an example there is an old
tale about the sequence of learning. Nasrudin
wanted to learn to play a musical instrument. The fee was five
silver pieces for the first lesson and three silver pieces for the second
and subsequent lessons. 'Very well', said Nusrudin, 'I'll start with
the second lesson.'Often to learn we have
to: - unlearn
something
first, - relinquish
existing
beliefs, - digest
the new
ideas, - integrate
the new
ideas, - ...Many
of us do not find that fun at all, having poor recollections of school days
learning. This may be part of the reason we put up barriers to
learning.So those looking for diversion find their latent capacity
to learn suppressed by their own inner tendencies.Sad really, but
not a hopeless situation. Sometimes just awareness of the inner
tendency to seek diversion is sufficient to overcome it.
Sometimes it requires more work. But perhaps everyone has a
capacity to learn if freed from self-imposed barriers.A
light-hearted approach to learning works well - it eases the process of give
and take of ideas, makes changes in beliefs and attitudes occur more
readily, opens the eyes to new vistas and perceptions.It is when a
light-hearted approach is based on a need for diversion that there is
usually a problem.People with a need for diversion often express
this as
: - complaints
about style, or length, or paragraph
style, - ask
where is the fun or
joke, - behave
in a child-like
manner, - execute
their strong
emotions, - seek
crowd
support, - become
self-righteous when they perceive crowd support is
available, - seek
excuses to reject the
opportunity, - see
selling where there is
none, - attack
the individual rather than the
idea, - take
the impersonal
personally, - ...We
all suffer from this to some degree.Are you going to release your
potential to learn? If so, you probably need to address your
inner tendencies.May your potential be realised,
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