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So is your goal mastery of self or being recognized as the next Kovner or Soros 
I didn't say it was a goal to be the next Kovner or Soros; I said it was possible for it to happen. Maybe that's a brazen thing to say, but it's true so why not say it? I'm not saying it will happen, just that it's possible. Who knows where your best will take you?
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You write this long post about the benefits of aiming inward and then once you are challenged you come back with "I want to know what its like to make a million on a trade". Yeah Dark, you sure sound like a guy who has freed himself from the clutches of external factors...
It's about the experience. Flying higher, farther. Just because someone wants to climb Everest doesn't mean they want fame as a mountain climber. Doing something to see if you can do it.
And yes, I have an ego like everyone else so if someone suggests that I was trying cop for failure then I'll respond.
Shit man, I'm no buddha. I'm just a 28 year old dude. What makes me different is that I can see dramatic possibilities and recognize those possiblities can be made real. That doesn't mean I'll nod and smile and hand you a flower if you insult me. Getting better at it though, maybe when I'm 40 and I've got my black belt. I'll be like David Carradine, the roving kung fu macro trader. Trading on the beaches of Portugal and the mountains of New Zealand, shunning violence and confrontation except when an ass whupping is needed.
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My advice; less talk--more action. You want to know yourself, then stop thinking about yourself. The best way, other than through silence, to express the inexpressible is through action.
Where did this come from? How can you rate my level of "talk to action" when you have no idea what actions I'm taking? Or are you just saying that I'm talking too much period? If you thought what I wrote was bullshit why didn't you just say so?
It's a standard I try to live up to, and it's an alignment that I think is more productive than many others out there.
I offered it in the hope that others would benefit from the perspective, not to try and present myself as some kind of trading buddha.
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Good luck on your journey. Take it from someone who has walked the path for some time, its an arduous one fraught with many fits and starts.
Thanks
Don't need luck though, don't believe in it.
If I could communicate one thing to this board, it's that life can be incredible and that people can be who they were meant to be. If you want to do something amazing, you can do it. You can rise above mediocrity and maybe even change the world if you have the fire and the drive to pull it off.
But to do it, you have to get to the right place internally and externally. If people think that's a bunch of feel good bullshit, I don't care, because in reality it's the biggest challenge anyone can take on.
Once again I'm 28 years, I'm YOUNG (and so are you Commisso, last time I checked you were younger than me), I'm not some revered wise man with a beard down to his knee who has seen all the ways of the world. I just see amazing possibility, and so I pursue that amazing possibility, and it doesn't matter if I'm imperfect or weak or misaligned in the beginning because my drive is like white hot molten metal and it just burns away everything that stands in my way. I am not the fucking buddha, I am not delta neutral when it comes to insults and emotions, and I am not some swami with all kinds of advice. (When I act like it that's just my ego getting the better of me.) I'm just one dude who sees the big prize (which hasn't been fully defined yet) and has the balls to pursue it full tilt in a way that 999,999 out of 1,000,000 people never will. And I have a drive to share these feelings because the whole thing is just such a cool trip.
You and Elvis may be right though, a little less talk and a lot more action, I'm probably in the running for longest average thread length on this board (sorry harrytrader), maybe I should pack up my handle and take an even more serious break than my past ones, like a full year.
molten metal hypocrite zen bullshitter mystic christian macro monkey darkhorse over and
out
