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" And before you know it, this walking to the mailbox story....is being mentioned across social media -- inspiring people, by walking to the mailbox. And it has parallels to every other aspect of someone's life."
Reductio Ad Absurdum
Old men will be telling the story to their grandchildren one day.
 
A great champion won three Olympic long distance medals within a few days in searing heat. Hell that's nothing, I heard of a guy who walked to the mailbox one day.
 
A great champion won three Olympic long distance medals within a few days in searing heat

I heard of a guy who walked to the mailbox one day.

It's all about the delivery. The process,

Me reading your ET comment, Right now,....could literally.....be the next Oscar award trophy winner.
Versus a story about, just, another Olympic athlete accomplishing impossible dreams by training hard. Ehh, heard that before many times, already,
 
It's all about the delivery.

Me reading your ET comment right now....could literally.....be the next Oscar award trophy winner.
Versus a story about, just, another Olympic athlete accomplishing impossible dreams by training hard. Ehh, heard that before many times.
Not nearly as many times as stories of losers who simply dream but fail to act.
 
Reductio Ad Absurdum
It is an error in thinking. The 2 examples are not of the same quality

Come on, you know why he's equivocating a world class athlete with a guy who checks the mailbox.

If you need a hint, look at the picture of the athlete.
 
Coincidence?....I think not.
The real kicker for me was when I realized you could derive macroscopic volatility from the microstructure of Hawkes processes , when doing the calculus the limits converge surely and leads to the mean reversion effects, and then it all clicked
 
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