|
PureBytes Links
Trading Reference Links
|
these
are great are they collected in a book???
<FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----From: David Rosenthal
[mailto:DavidRNews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002
2:16 PMTo: realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject: RE: [RT]
PSYCH:Capacity to Learn/Nasrudin (off-topic, but what isn't
lately...)
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!
<FONT color=#0000ff
face=Arial>
My favorite
Nasrudin story, highly applicable to trading:
<FONT color=#0000ff
face=Arial>
<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."
<FONT color=#0000ff
face=Arial>
Here's a
few more samples, copied from various web sites (Google search on "Nasrudin"),
<FONT color=#0000ff
face=Arial>
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."
<FONT color=#0000ff
face=Arial>
<FONT color=#0000ff
face=Arial>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."
<FONT
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?"
<FONT color=#0000ff
face=Arial><FONT
color=#000000>
<FONT color=#0000ff
face=Arial>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...
<FONT color=#0000ff
face=Arial>
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
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">
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
<FONT face=Arial
size=2>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">
----- Original Message -----
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black">From:
ric
ingram
To: <A
href="mailto:realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
title=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,
Ric.To unsubscribe from this group,
send an email
to:realtraders-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxYour
use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the <A
href="http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/";>Yahoo! Terms of Service.
To unsubscribe from this group, send an email
to:realtraders-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxYour
use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the <A
href="http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/";>Yahoo! Terms of Service.
To
unsubscribe from this group, send an email
to:realtraders-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxYour
use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the <A
href="http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/";>Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Yahoo! Groups Sponsor
ADVERTISEMENT
To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
realtraders-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
|