We are getting old.... It's MP4's, M4V (iTunes), MKV and streaming video content these days. Soon it will be virtual reality(VR) and holographic projections... Imagine the horror total VR immersion in a Hee-Haw episode...
LOL, I still own a car that has an 8-track in it, although don't drive it much, restoring it slowly. Explaining that was like explaining VHS and Betamax wars.
My 1941 chevy has an AM radio that gets 3 channels. Old country, public news, and a Spanish station. Like you, I don't drive it much, It's been a many year restoration.
F) TIME IT TAKES TO REINVENT: FIVE YEARS This is total nonsense. You cannot put a timing on your reinvention. All depends of the evolution you are going thru. Some periods you will advance quickly, some periods you will go slowly, and some periods you will even go backwards. My personal periods were as follow: 5 years of heavy losses (hundreds of thousands of dollars) 5 years to be able to stay consistently above zero!!! X years making consistent profits and having control over my trading For each individual this periods can be completely different. I had a rather long learning period, but I know from other traders results that my results now are more than compensating for the time and money invested. What is misleading in the post too is that they say: it takes five years to reinvent yourself. The reality is that part of the people will reinvent themselves, and part will never. Trying five years is no guarantee whatsoever for any result. Result is unpredictable. Motivation and willing to go for it will not be enough. H) IT'S NOT ABOUT MONEY Money is only part of the game, you should be really interested in trading or you will never persist in the sometimes horrible moments and big deceptions that everybody has to go thru, even the most gifted traders will not. Because it is not only about money, successful traders dont have to be the richest men in the World. But people who dont have the drive like these traders dont understand this. For them you should be by definition the richest in the world, if not you are a loser. Becoming successful in anything is always a combination of money and interest. People who say it is all about money, are people who are often in such a bad situation that money is the only way out. They only focus on the money. But trading only for the money will never succeed as EVERYBODY has to go thru (big) losses and endless periods of problems and frustaration. And the "traders for money only" can not overcome these periods and problems. That's why they will never succeed. They want immediate $$$ for every small thing they do. But trading does not work like that. Success in most things does not work like that. You should first invest and then hope to collect later. K) HOW DO I MAKE MONEY? I made my +7000 hours the first three years and was in the top 200-300 of the world I suppose. But not from profits but from losses. So these predictions of when you should be where in your adventure are stupid and dont make any sense. If I would have followed the plan of Altucher I would have stopped trading years ago with a huge loss. Because I did not do what he writes, but followed my own plan (that I put in doubt over and over again) I ended up with huge profits. Unfortunatelly many many years later than predicted by Altucher. The only way to measure where you are and if you should stop or not, is by making an objective but critical evaluation of where you are standing at that moment. Then you can decide if you should continue or stop. This can be after 6 months or after 12 years, depends of what you do and how your evolution is. Nobody can realistically plan in advance if, and when, he will be a successful trader.
I'm never gonna quit, although I admit that after 6 years, FULL TIME, of fairly consistent (yet smallish) losses, I know that in truth, it's looking unlikely that i'll ever 'make it'. I find it hard to imagine that i'll ever 'see' something that i've not yet noticed in the last 6 years of chart watching for 10 hours per day!!
I live along the border in Texas, we have AM/FM radio stations, AM=All mexician and FM= Frequent mexician, been here many years and refuse to learn Spanish. Went to a Mc Donalds long ago where entire menu was in Spanish and had to get manager as he only one spoke broken English and I was still in Texas.
I been playing the game nearly four decades and still see something "new" every month, of course it could be you much more smarter than me as many people generally are. I use to be smart but I was broke all the time back then, I found the dumber I became, bottom line increased.