Giving up
- Thread starter Sucker
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MY point is DO what it takes to be a successful trader. If you are putting in 3 hours a day learning and researching, and that isn't cutting it, then put in SIX hours a day. or Eight. or TEN! whatever it takes, just DO IT. I DID. And so did you if you are successful. and if you don't want to put this kind of time and effort in then you don't want it bad enuf, so don't come here looking for sympathy whining and moaning ohhh whoa is me. my guess is sucker isn't willing to go this far to "get it". that's my point.
Preach on, brutha man...
Every time a football player goes to play his trade he's got to play from the ground up-from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.
Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization-an army, a political party or a business. The principles are the same. The object is to win-to beat the other guy. Maybe that sounds hard or cruel. I don't think it is.
It is a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most competitive men. That's why they are there-to compete. To know the rules and objectives when they get in the game. The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules-but to win.
And in truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for discipline and the harsh reality of head to head combat.
-Vince Lombardi
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Ohhhh "humble my ass". Kinky. i heard about you jersey boys ...but Sorry, i'm not into rough sex. I like a soft hand and sweet talk..
Worse, I am from Brooklyn!..Sorry to overreact, but seriously..I think a lot of these threads just degenerate into name calling and such, and I try and give the thread starter the benefit of the doubt. Just that most of these threads, turn into "high school" mentality real fast, (and I include my reply to you in that!).
The poor guy is just looking for some info, not to be berated.
PS... Also bear in mind that my mother-in-law is with me for 2 MONTHS from Europe...so I can get a little tense!
when i was pumping iron in the gym and had aspirations of getting BIG a number of years back i met this self made man in the course of my occupation. he single handedly revolutionized a particular industry (you'd be very very surprised to know which) from scratch, became a multi-millionaire many times over. a genuinely remarkable and unique person with the rare combination of intelligence, discipline, perseverence and the willingness to work very very hard at what he loved to get results. a genius if you will in his own right, in the sense that he could put it all together and achieve results (he also had a few other successful businesses before the BIG SUCCESS). what is even more remarkable is he was born during the depression years, never finished high school but left home at the age of 13, getting his pilots license at 15.
now he isn't a genius in the sense of a mathematical wizard, or anything like that, but in the sense that he could draw inferences from diverse sources when needed, knew the right questions to ask and a keen ability to find/deduce PRACTICAL solutions where everyone else was stumped, but i don't doubt for one minute that he has a high IQ.
well, i met this guy when i was working out and thought i was making good progress. he took one look at me (i was in a three piece suit) and asked, Do you work out? i proudly replied, Why yes i do . he asked, How long you been working out? i said, Oh for about three years now. he scornfully replied with complete frankness: Now that you've failed at bodybuilding what else do you plan on failing at!?
That remark hit me right between the eyes. I thought I had achieved, at the very least, noteworthy results, but here he was telling me right to my face in no uncertain terms that i hadn't. he was right, and I INSTANTLY KNEW HE WAS RIGHT! (physical training was his "BIG SUCCESS") i had not put in the time, intellectually or physically, to achieve what could have been accomplished in that time and what was needed to reach my desired goal. i THOUGHT i had, but in reality i hadn't.
i failed, and by definition i was a failure (at this endeavor). i lost, and therefore i was a loser. i faced up to it, wasn't offended but, on the contrary, i was extremely grateful that someone had shown me where the proper placement of the bar (the standard by which to measure results) should have been placed all along.
i'll never forget it.
RESULTS is the ONLY thing that matters. Money talks and bullshit walks! Do what is necessary to find the solution and achieve results, or become a loser and accept it as such. there is no in between. you are either winning or you are losing, it's up to you.
ps this is assuming of course that you have something on the ball. unfortunately some of us don't have the necessary intellectual apparatus, most do but not everyone does.
now he isn't a genius in the sense of a mathematical wizard, or anything like that, but in the sense that he could draw inferences from diverse sources when needed, knew the right questions to ask and a keen ability to find/deduce PRACTICAL solutions where everyone else was stumped, but i don't doubt for one minute that he has a high IQ.
well, i met this guy when i was working out and thought i was making good progress. he took one look at me (i was in a three piece suit) and asked, Do you work out? i proudly replied, Why yes i do
. he asked, How long you been working out? i said, Oh for about three years now. he scornfully replied with complete frankness: Now that you've failed at bodybuilding what else do you plan on failing at!?That remark hit me right between the eyes. I thought I had achieved, at the very least, noteworthy results, but here he was telling me right to my face in no uncertain terms that i hadn't. he was right, and I INSTANTLY KNEW HE WAS RIGHT! (physical training was his "BIG SUCCESS") i had not put in the time, intellectually or physically, to achieve what could have been accomplished in that time and what was needed to reach my desired goal. i THOUGHT i had, but in reality i hadn't.
i failed, and by definition i was a failure (at this endeavor). i lost, and therefore i was a loser. i faced up to it, wasn't offended but, on the contrary, i was extremely grateful that someone had shown me where the proper placement of the bar (the standard by which to measure results) should have been placed all along.i'll never forget it.
RESULTS is the ONLY thing that matters. Money talks and bullshit walks! Do what is necessary to find the solution and achieve results, or become a loser and accept it as such. there is no in between. you are either winning or you are losing, it's up to you.
ps this is assuming of course that you have something on the ball. unfortunately some of us don't have the necessary intellectual apparatus, most do but not everyone does.