no one has inspired me to quit trading more than this guy. enjoying the thread, keep it going please.
You serious ZG - you've quit Trading? Dest, whats your I.Q. (and Penis length) please ... asking for @Overnight I read 3/4s of End Blytons Famous Five books by the time I was 14.
1860 is pushing it. That goes past reading words serially and into the parallel territory. Highly doubtful. I read + comprehend as fast as my eyes can move and it's not even half that number. That's either a lie or inhuman. If so, congrats. Why finance and not something more cerebral? Certainly once you have enough it becomes not only a chore but a nuisance? For the record I'm not talking about being some Adjunct or Postdoc working in a lab for $30k a year.
My Great Gran said "Darc, listen to Overnight. He's a smart little Cookie that one". I said "I know Nan, I know". My Great Gran lived to be 106 years of age.
Sears set you up for this (the full ride)? I scored >99% but family refused to let me do anything about it. No special schools, no tutors, nothing. Father would beat me if he caught me reading. 70 IQ fucking moron. I hated that stupid cunt. Certainly no Illinois Math and Science Academy. I ended up rotting in the public school system for years and mentally checking out. The rage is pretty bottled up but it's still there (towards my parents and the system at large). Ridiculous waste of potential. Do you think you would have ended up where you are now if you hadn't attended good schools or had decent parents? How much do you think environment plays a factor? Even Nikola had to dig ditches at one point. I made it but I had to fight everyone around me in order to do it. Most people want to hold you back. I had to tell everyone to fuck off. Zero support. Would have been a lot easier if I had been born a family to the left in the cul-de-sac.
The stories are true, but I suppose I could also be trolling as well. We had a kid Jeff-something a year behind me and he hit 23xx. He had *perfect* recall basis the comprehension tests and finished all volumes in 40 days or so. I am sure it's a fault of the testing. They flashed short sentences via slides in this huge projector. It was the only way to jump a grade -> chosen for special ops -> complete the 20 volume series and then you made the decision to skip a grade in the Fall. At least in our school district. I did take my MCAT after UT-Austin and carried a letter from Folkers, but that's getting ahead of the story. You mean now? Dude, I am in my 50s.
I can clearly tell you're intelligent, but this is the internet, so you never quite know. I've met some serious freaks in my time, and I'm about 155. They made me look like a fool. 35 here. Just wondering if you would have had the same level of success if you didn't have the upbringing you did. ie. if you went the public school route, graduated at 18, etc. would it have just delayed it or altered your trajectory completely?
I feel for your situation. My dad was a tyrant but was an academic-elitist and would have disowned us had we not been over-achievers. I boarded in HS in Connecticut and that was a setback, academically. Lots of drugs.