Swirling Tornado

My mind seems have a hundred things flying around and each idea wants to express itself. The ultimate ambition of each one is to succeed, but like the energy of the sun, it is widely disbursed. One needs to focus it, like a laser, to get the energy one needs to succeed.

I read several disparate items on the market and have a few ideas myself, but what I can sense is that there is no order but a sense of one. It can last a day, a moment, 200 yrs, but something always pushes through to change the dynamic of things. And where the speculator can catch a windfall. But only if one is focused.

So the secret for the human race is discipline, which is the animal side of us, but we can shape that discipline with belief - working towards a goal; something unique to mankind.

Bernard Malamud is one of my favorite authors but his stories, at least the ones I read, are very sad. They are about very lonely characters that let life pass them buy. They were content to just survive, but in doing so their survival was put into jeopardy by life progressing while they are standing firm.

Everyday one has to question his motivation in the market and be firm about value: who is buying and who is selling. You can't lose sight of the overall picture. And you have to believe. Have to fight for something.

My goal is to make high yielding decisions that should compound over time. How? By being involved on what's people's minds. And that is the markets. It holds an allure on people's imaginations like Hollywood (the life everyone wants to have) and gambling (lady luck), but unlike those two industries this one has the appeal of understanding how the world works.

Admittedly I don't think anyone has figured that one out and I don't expect to be the first (in fact will probably fall short of that), but I believe it is a goal pursuing.