Quote from greedytrader:
There is a piece that I played with and tried to put it in place for the puzzle for a long time. It didn't fit, so I gave it up. I thought that it was not the piece. I thought it wouldn't work. I thought that it was impossible. So I threw it away.
Instead, I forced my way. I blieved that it was the only way to move ahead. I spent a long time trying to make it work. But it just didn't work. No matter what I tried.
Then I spent some time figuring about the reasons. Because the solutions were unsatisfactory, the causes were discarded. That is a very bad mistake. That caused a lot of wasted time and money. I was constantly shifting among causes.
I gave it a little more thinking. I tried to pinpoint the cause or causes.
Then I came back to the piece that I had played with for a long time. And I believe that this is the cause.
Then why did I throw it away?
Because it didn't fit. why not fit, maybe because I held it in the wrong direction. If I rotate it some degrees, it may fit.
And now I am working with this piece. Hopefully it will work.
This happens because the other kind of solution didn't work. If the other kind of solution worked, I wouldn't be coming back to the old piece. Anyway, working on the other kind of solution took a lot of time and money.
Now, looking at the current (old) piece, I have a feeling that it is the right one. Of course, during after hours, everything looks reasonable, calm, logical, pretty.
Will it work when I sit down in front of an active chart?
If it doesn't work, I will shift back the current solution (Actually, I did that many many many many times).
Again, I think the old piece will work.
I did a little more thinking afterwards and I suddenly realized that it was NOT the cause. Actually it is one of the causes. There is another cause that clearly dragged me into this abyss many many times in the past. The "another cause" used to be considered a major cause.
Somehow, in the process of searching for the real cause, the "another cause" was lost.
After careful examination of the "another cause," I decide that it's the combination of the two causes. When the combination concept is raised, a door suddenly opened. Walking through that door, I found another pair of causes.
The "another pair of causes" were once considered the reason of failure.
So I keep re-visiting the old causes. Sometimes I was convinced one of them was THE cause, sometimes I put two together. When the two didn't work, I went back to one. When one didn't work, I went back to two. Othertimes, when one didn't work, I threw it away and focused on another one.
But one thing is for sure, the cause I thought yesterday (the quoted post above) was the reason of failure is definitely NOT the cause.
Now I think it's a combination. Not two, but four.
Now looking back, I am wondering why I keep narrowing onto one single cause. One explanation is that I came up with a solution first, then went back to the imaginative cause. Oftentimes, the solution needs an easier cause. If the cause is too difficult, the solution wouldn't work. So I selected one corresponding cause to match the solution. Of course, one by one, those causes failed to establish themselves as the reason of failure. The process was frustrating because I kept wondering what the reason was for the failure.
By the way, that process is a long one. How long? I don't know yet, because I haven't reached the end of it yet. After I reach the end, I will be able to tell you how long the process is. I promise I will tell you how long the process is, unless I am banned by this website.
