'Idiot-Savant' Traders?

[Optionpro007]

Wasn't able to finish the Davinci method book either.

Some great ideas, but some incredible screwups too.

I am just about to finish "How to get Rich" by Felix Dennis. Got my 2thumbs up big time.

This is a book worth reading. In his book he relates a stage in his life in which he drank the finest wines, snored the finest coke, banged the finest whores and ate the finest meats and cheeses.....

(does anybody here know anybody like that? lol)

nowadays he only drinks the finest wines.... =)

Great book.

Quote from 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?

 

[Rearden Metal]

High functioning autistic, my ass.
I knew that label didn't quite fit right. I just had never heard the <b>correct</b> term for what I am, until stumbling upon it last night on a rented 'Prison Break' DVD:

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Sara: What did you treat him for?
Dr. Brighton: Well Michael suffered from a couple of things. One was a condition called <b>low latent inhibition.</b>
Sara: Sorry, I’m not familiar with the term.
Dr. Brighton: Well, people who suffer from low latent inhibition see every day things just like you or I do, like this lamp for instance. But where we just process the image of a lamp, they process everything. The stem, the bulb, the bolts, even the washers inside. Their brains are more open to incoming stimuli in the surrounding environment. Other people’s brains – yours and mine – shut out the same information. We have to do it, in order to keep our sanity. If someone with a low IQ has low latent inhibition, it almost always results in mental illness. But, if someone has a high IQ, it almost always results in creative genius.

_______________

Good to know... finally. Is anyone else here LLI, or is it just me?
I'm going to learn a lot more about LLI over the weekend.
Plenty of reading to do...

 

[acronym]

Dude, thats just a new label for old stuff.

The x ray vision is'nt helpfull if you dont know what the hell your doing, you know?

This "way" of seeing things isnt defined by personality type/brain function as such, its a staple of most yogic traditions.

Why do you need to be unique, to search for labels for yourself? Another poster described you as a "freak", isnt that unique enough?

 

[Nattdog]

really no need for new labels.

Truely creative people always have had a different view, ability and style... an d usually a different, more radical temperment as well.

Pretending this is a new discovery, or needs new labels. well, that is sad.

What % of the population is able to have a completely self generated thought or insight? Plodding along and following instructions is all most know.

If u don't fit that model.. well, U could have ADD or any number of diseases, u could have "lowlatentmumbofuck".

For some, the only way life works is if it is carried out according to their vision and by their will. If u sympathise, perhaps find those like you to associate with.. and stop defining by majority opinions.

 

[Bonpara]

Agree: 2,4,6,7,9,12,16,19,20,21,22,23,26,33,35,39,41,42,43,45,46: 1 point
Disagree: 1,10,11,14,15,17,24,25,27,28,29,30,31,32,34,36,37,38,40,44,47,48,50: 1 point
Score: 44

should i be worried? lol

 

[Rearden Metal]

Quote from Nattdog:

really no need for new labels.

Truely creative people always have had a different view, ability and style... an d usually a different, more radical temperment as well.

Pretending this is a new discovery, or needs new labels. well, that is sad.

What % of the population is able to have a completely self generated thought or insight? Plodding along and following instructions is all most know.

If u don't fit that model.. well, U could have ADD or any number of diseases, u could have "lowlatentmumbofuck".

For some, the only way life works is if it is carried out according to their vision and by their will. If u sympathise, perhaps find those like you to associate with.. and stop defining by majority opinions.

I've just found a concise three-word term to describe something about myself that previously took a few paragraphs of explanation. This is obviously useful to me.

The only thing 'sad' here is your post.

 

[Nattdog]

I am glad you found something useful. I have read that increasing specificity of labels is a sign knowledge is increasing, as more subtle classification is possible. maybe that is true here. Plus, regardless of label it perhaps some new ideas there that increase self understanding, which seems to be the case.

My opinion though, is that there is a "label of the month" for things like this, and, well, in the end most fall flat disolving into mumbojumbo.

 

[slowdown]

I scored 16, how incredibly boring.

 

[spect8or]

Quote from 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. [/red]

Archimedes! Why didn't you warn us?

Hahaha. Reading the first part of your post I just knew that your beef would be that the book made references to God/theism/mysticism. Just knew it.

 

[spect8or]

Quote from acronym:



This "way" of seeing things isnt defined by personality type/brain function as such, its a staple of most yogic traditions.

Yes, let's subsitute the sort of scientific investigation that has proven itself profitable in countless ways for some mystical yogi 'wisdom'. Great idea.