'Idiot-Savant' Traders?

[Dogballoon]

Bingo! Another hallmark trait of Endorphin Deficiency Syndrome is oversensitivity to pain. Anyone ever diagnose you with Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis/fibromyalgia by any chance?

Does any of this sound familiar?:



I actually looked up CFS a while ago due to some random trigger of my curiosity and wondered if it was applicable. Might have been the interview with LBR in one of the Market Wizards book. It is possible because I am tired all the time and have have small digestive problems, but the symptoms are so abstract that I can't really put much stock in it as a cohesive source until I read more research I think.

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Truthfully, I only seem to have that degree of empathy.

Howard Hughes did some great things for mankind, but none of them were really done out of any true humanitarian motive.

(Hint: It's not about money either.)</b>

Sincere commitment to progress for the sheer pleasure of it? Uncovering systems in nature/society and encoding them in knowledge is a core source of pleasure for the human brain and those who have a degree of whatever it is that links creativity, autism, genius, etc. have an innate ability to decode. Or maybe just an interest in raising awareness for the sake of eventual legislation changes? Although I'm sure there is a degree of empathy, even if it is abstract and impersonal.

 

[Dogballoon]

Quote from archimedes:

No problemo -- it explained a lot for me too, particularly in helping to understand my father and grandfather better.

Re dogballoon's comments on 'fixing' one's self--or what I like to think of as pursuit of the integrated self--Phillip Eby has some intriguing thoughts:

http://dirtsimple.org/2005/08/multiple-self.html

The integrated self idea is a pretty interesting one. A big part of Jung's model as opposed to Freud's as well as certain Eastern philosophies. It seems like on a cursory read this guy is trying to demystify the drive we formerly could only describe in terms of metaphors and archetypes with a layperson's description of the conflict of our evolutionary brain structures. If so, I agree with that direction. He's a bit indirect with his writing so I'll have to scan this later tonight when I'm in a more reflective mindset. Thank ye.

 

[Optionpro007]

great post archimedes. i agree wholeheartedly.

Quote from archimedes:

For what it's worth, my personal experience has been the exact opposite.

It's all about gradual progress--and that progress is very real. Every once in a while the big a-ha! moments seem to burst out of nowhere, but in reality they are the result of a slow build, the steady accumulation of insights and edges over time.

Nor do I agree that there is a linear distinction between "stuck in shit" and "free." There are multiple levels of self-awareness, perhaps an infinite number of levels as far as general human purpose is concerned.

If someone were to convince me my present level of self-awareness is the highest I'll ever achieve, I would be deeply depressed. To regress back to levels of five or ten years ago would be like having a substantial amount of life force drained away. And looking back, there was no single hallelujah moment when "shit" became "freedom."

p.s. Eby's insights might be old hat to you, but that doesn't preclude them from being new, or insightful, for other people. Oftentimes an interesting observation serves as a doorway--and sometimes that's all it needs to be.

p.p.s. one of the most important things I've discovered on my 'journey' is that sometimes it's necessary to keep going, even when there seems to be no hope. Like the old Chinese saying goes, "The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed." I can't count the number of times I thought I was at an absolute dead end, but instead of quitting decided to say fuck it and kept going anyway... and then a new idea or a new insight came along, usually born of my frustrated efforts, and things were moving again. After this happened a few times, I realized the seemingly hopeless dead ends were illusions more often than not. But for those who turn back they are gravestones.

 

[murky]

Ouch, i scored 42... I don't feel like I have any super special abilities, unfortunately.

I am about to start a low dose oral mercury chelation protocol (Andrew Cutler's protocol), so I hope to follow the footsteps of many adult ASD-types who have improved doing this.

 

[Rearden Metal]

<b>UGH! This is getting painful.</b> (DaVinci Method)

How could a book start out so brilliant, so insightful, so seemingly valuable... and then deteriorate and rot in front of my eyes to the point where Loporto's barrage of pure bullshit makes me question whether the first ('brilliant') part perhaps only <i>seemed</i> true and correct. Like the time decay curve in options, the deterioration after page 94 is slow at first- not too bad really, but then like a snowball rolling downhill it gradually picks up momentum, accelerating a bit more with every passing moment... until the book completely collapses upon itself like time value on expiration Friday.

It's like everything through page 94 was written by a master scientist, a great thinker with the keys to wisdom & understanding... who then handed off the ball at page 95 to some fourth rate Dr. Phil wannabe, talking out of his ass while apparently seeking to capture a slice of the daytime television programming market for bored middle aged white housewives. Ugh. I kept fucking reading this trash- all the way through page 195 (OK, more skimming than reading after a while), thinking the 'first' Loporto would come back and say something meaningful... but all I get is more heaping steaming piles of horseshit.

I'm confused- not sure if the second part completely invalidates the first or not, embarrassed at having recommended a book containing so much illogical delusional theism, mysticism and other assorted fairy tales. God damn, I really should have stopped at page 94.

Archimedes! Why didn't you warn us?

 

[Optionpro007]

Thank you RM for your comments. I had ordered the book not received it yet....

But will keep pg 94 in mind.

I have also sometimes recommended books, websites and the like to friends and family only to find out they were pos info...

embarrassing...but it happens invariably when helping others out..

Cheers !

 

[archimedes]

The curse of the book business... a 94 page book wouldn't fly, so the author had to come up with filler to get it to acceptable length.

Happens frequently with books that present a hard-driving big idea or insight. You get the good stuff up front, and then a bunch of pointless padding in the back to meet some artificial length requirement. If the publisher is in the mix too, trying to make the book more 'marketable', it can make things even worse as publisher suggestions are generally horrible. But I wouldn't it hold it against the author too much. The objective value of good insights or ideas should stand alone. A diamond delivered in a bag of bullshit is still a diamond if you know what I mean.

Once you recognize how these type of books are structured, it becomes easier to recognize when the idea is fully communicated and the padding kicks in. Usually it's marked by pointless riffing or goofy theorizing on the part of the author. I've seen it over and over and over again.

 

[zdreg]

Quote from nitinparmar:

Making a online diagnosis and then admitting you are not well read on autism. ET and this thread is going downhill.

find me one thread that is not going to downhill. exceptions are hardware and software.

 

[Dogballoon]

Quote from archimedes:

Usually it's marked by pointless riffing or goofy theorizing on the part of the author. I've seen it over and over and over again.

Just the statement that a particular gene can be activated by near death experiences should have been a key tip off there. It's a particularly American habit to merge mysticism with commonly-understood scientific practice in incomensurable ways to satisfy a certain type of consumer.

 

[kiwi_trader]

LOL ... I scored diplomat ... those who've been on the wrong end of my scorn will have enjoyed my skilled diplomacy