T-DOGG. Jack-Style (if indeed Jack has any style), I shall respond to your post by quoting you and then meta-commenting NLP style. "Let's take a few moments for a bit of self-indulgent introspection, by answering four questions." T-DOGG, you have always been supportive of my love-hate relationshp with ET, so I shall be gentle. You recall that Carl (why not Karl, one wonders) said that "All psychology is autobiography." All I can say is "self-indulgent." Were I to say more, I would say, "Why only FOUR questions?" I can think of MANY more important, not the least of which is "What do women want?". But no matter, evidement you are obsessed with trading to the detriment of reality. 1. Presently, what is your single biggest fear in life? It need not be limited to the trading arena. Why is trading an arena? Why must one fear life at all? These are the concerns of a man who is not giving and getting enough orgasms. But to be polite, and true, my own greatest fear is that one morning I shall not wake up with a hard-on. Perhaps because I am dead. Or because no post-multiply-orgasmic fat girl is beside me. 2. How, and to what extent, do you think this fear has either helped or hindered you? I think you mean this to be in the context of trading, which clearly is a substitute for good sex. It has helped me because I feel that I need to get off before I trade. It has hindered me because after I get off I don't care about trading. 3. If you have found that, on balance, your fear has hindered you, what steps do you think you would need to take in order to overcome that fear? If somehow I could hook my sensitive parts up to an electronic stimulator which would make winning trades as much fun as sex, I could overcome my fear that good sex does not translate into good trading. 4. If you are not presently taking these steps, what prevents you from doing so? (If, indeed, you have found that your fear serves as a hindrance.) I find that chronic alcoholism, which fosters chronic priapism, is a hindrance to EVERYTHING. That is why one needs good trade codes. We can't ALL be Jack.
biggest fear: getting bored... reading some of this thread was particularly taxing... am outta here...
Hypostomus, Clearly, then, you live by the adage that life is hard, and you are rigid in your beliefs. In your defense, I suppose that flexibility can have its downside... Carry on.
Losing my head and getting married again...... But i will say this, if it ever did happen, she would be a special person. Chances are better for me to win the big lotto....HA... Lots of special gals out there but when one is set in their ways such as i am.......................
ok...yours in quite profound....I think my problem is I have no fear...fear is healthy as you point out and not having fear can be a problem in life as you will often put yourself in dangerous or vulnerable situations....like picking up hitch-hikers or hitch-hiking yourself ( I've done both)...then you go...oh shit :eek: I did fear death for a long time but decided to get over it as there is nothing I can do about it....now I keep on my nitestand my motto by Thoreau...."We have lived not in proportion to the number of years we have spent on the earth...but in proportion as we have enjoyed"....and try to enjoy all the minutes I have on this earth.
actually in the spirit of total honesty....and I guess because I do suppress it...my one fear (of)...men
Thank you for a most interesting, if somewhat tardy, response. A few other respondents mentioned the fear of dying. And as I replied, I personally do not have a conscious fear of death in the normal course. However, I imagine that it would almost certainly arise if I suddenly found myself in physical danger or if I became gravely ill. In the meantime, if such a fear exists in me, it lies fairly dormant. Admittedly, I do drive responsibly and I avoid questionable alleys at night. However, is that simply prudence and a respect for life or an underlying fear? I suppose a case could be made either way. And either way, I'm okay with it. What I find intriguing about your response is that you went from an apparently conscious fear of dying to no fear at all. Surely it is not that black and white, is it? Surely there are varying shades of gray within this broad spectrum. Regardless, I am baffled how someone can leap from one end of the spectrum to the other without getting any of those pesky splotches of gray on them.