Facing The New Year With Eyes On The Stars, Feet On The Ground

To a surprising degree, we think in narratives. We have stories we tell ourselves about our relationships, our trading, our careers, our future. Those narratives provide continuity to life. They also can become ways in which we lie to ourselves and fall victim to self-delusion.

This post explains how easy it is to fool ourselves. It is not comfortable reading, but it is important reading.

We cannot move forward unless we're honest with ourselves about where we stand now.

We cannot improve unless we connect emotionally with the ways in which we fall short.

We cannot manage risk effectively unless we accept loss.

The greatest way traders lie to themselves is by telling themselves that they have a durable edge in financial markets. How do you know that you have an edge? How do you know that your edge will persist? How will you know if you're cultivating a new edge? If your existing edge is eroding?

We need dreams and positive visions. Those move us forward in life. We also need the ability to wake up, question those dreams and visions, and face hard realities.

What are your dreams for 2016? What are the hard realities you need to face for the new year?

Eye on the stars, feet on the ground: a great formula for life success.

Further Reading: The Greatest Con Job Of All
.

Comments

Benefits Of Healthy eating Turmeric every day for the body

One teaspoon of turmeric a day to prevent inflammation, accumulation of toxins, pain, and the outbreak of cancer. Yes, turmeric has been known since 2.5 centuries ago in India, as a plant anti-inflammatory / inflammatory, anti-bacterial, and also have a good detox properties, now proven to prevent Alzheimer's disease and cancer. Turmeric prevents inflammation: For people who

Women and children overboard

It's the Catch-22 of clinical trials: to protect pregnant women and children from the risks of untested drugs....we don't test drugs adequately for them. In the last few decades , we've been more concerned about the harms of research than of inadequately tested treatments for everyone, in fact. But for "vulnerable populations," like pregnant women and children, the default was to exclude them. And just in case any women might be, or might become, pregnant, it was often easier just to exclude us all from trials. It got so bad, that by the late 1990s, the FDA realized regulations and more for pregnant women - and women generally - had to change. The NIH (National Institutes of Health) took action too. And so few drugs had enough safety and efficacy information for children that, even in official circles, children were being called "therapeutic orphans." Action began on that, too. There is still a long way to go. But this month there was a sign that

Not a word was spoken (but many were learned)

Video is often used in the EFL classroom for listening comprehension activities, facilitating discussions and, of course, language work. But how can you exploit silent films without any language in them? Since developing learners' linguistic resources should be our primary goal (well, at least the blogger behind the blog thinks so), here are four suggestions on how language (grammar and vocabulary) can be generated from silent clips. Split-viewing Split-viewing is an information gap activity where the class is split into groups with one group facing the screen and the other with their back to the screen. The ones facing the screen than report on what they have seen - this can be done WHILE as well as AFTER they watch. Alternatively, students who are not watching (the ones sitting with their backs to the screen) can be send out of the classroom and come up with a list of the questions to ask the 'watching group'. This works particularly well with action or crime scenes with

Humor4u

Search This Blog