The Best Way to Learn?
Is this the best way to learn? Turn up the volume and watch the 61 second video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eXFxttxeaA
Immediate feedback is the best way to learn in a command and control situation. If you make a mistake in war, you may endanger your comrades. Gomer Pyle’s error received swift punishment—slaps across the face. The sergeant may be harsh, but he is effective.
Investing is a more complex endeavor. You may act improperly (buy a stock after Cramer recommends it on CNBC) and make a profit, but lose money in the short-run while executing the proper process. One way to improve your perspective and discipline is to study history. You need a theory to place historical facts into a coherent understanding of reality. If not, you could end up in hell like Mr. Alan Greenspan testifying before Congress in 2008. Go here and click on minute 49.30 (49th minute, 30th second).
Greenspan in hell http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/view/
Mr. Greenspan admits that his “model” of reality had a “flaw” in it. He can barely speak cogently. Gee, I wonder why we are in a mess now. The entire video is worth watching but here again without a theoretical grasp of what causes booms and busts you would be persuaded that derivatives and their lack of regulation were the main causes of the crisis. Derivatives were a tool used to hide or magnify leverage, but they were not the cause of the crisis. That is like saying machine guns cause murder. No, people who commit the crime using guns cause murder.
Death Therapy
It is too late for Mr. Greenspan. The solution for him is Death Therapy, a guaranteed cure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?vw_bxkVFK3Wc&feature=related
You, the reader, have other options. Download A Study of Market History below:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/65814320/A-Study-of-Market-History-Through-Graham-Babson-Buffett-and-Others
I hope you begin your history lessons.
