One book can change your life.

I remember when I worked for a major investment bank. They had
just had a staff reshuffle. I survived it because I had only just
joined the place as a trainee a mere two months earlier. All the
people who had hired me were now gone, and I was left at a loose
end.

Anyway, I found a book that interested me. It was about the whole
science/art of forecasting financial markets by using price
charts. So I asked the company to buy it for me, and they did.
The book cost about $25. I studied it and liked what I read.


Believe it or not, that one book – it's called "Technical
Analysis of the Futures Market" by John Murphy – changed my
entire career, and set the stage for me arguably becoming one of
the best market forecasters in the industry. (I have had no less
than TWO of my managers – both Global department heads of major
investment banks – tell me they thought I was the best analyst
they had ever met in their entire careers. These
two guys have never met each other either!)

All this for an initial investment of $25.

The moral of the story is that even one good book can change your
life, totally and completely.

Information is what separates the knowledgeable from the
ignorant. A person who does not read and study in his/her chosen
field of expertise is no better than a person who CANNOT read.

The motivational speaker, Zig Ziglar, is known for saying that he
reads for three hours a day, every day. Now, that sort of time
period may not be your choice, but NOBODY should be reading for
less than an hour a day. Nobody.

There's no secret as to how to do it either. You merely sit down
in a place where you won't be disturbed, and keep doing it until
time's up.

So what are YOU reading these days?…

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But whatever field you are interested in, make sure you put in
the time to study and master it. Books and courses represent the
distilled wisdom of experts. They are a great time saver because
they are saving you the time and money of having to reinvent the
wheel, and find out all the same things for yourself.

So, challenge yourself. Read every day. Determine to get GOOD at
something, or at least knowledgeable in a field of interest.

Asoka

Just after september 11th 2001, I wrote some articles that, with the benefit of hindsight, almost read like prophecies! They were highly unpopular with a large number of my ezine's readership then. Then again, America was in a state of total denial at the time.

I think the following years have brought forth a lot more understanding of the role of Cause & Effect in world events, and of the so-called Terrorism going on. . So I doubt that my comments are quite as "offensive" as they seemed then.

Time and recent events have brought a lot of people around to many of the sentiments I expressed in the first article. Please note that it was written before Iraq, Afganistan, or the present morbid absorption with Terrorism that the world seems caught up with today. But I warned about a lot of what was to come FIVE YEARS ago. Read for yourself and then come back and post your thoughts here…

Terror, Terrorism & September 11th

Asoka

60-year old in-flight granny panics with claustrophobia!

Next thing.. she's handcuffed! Suspicious "notes" are
found. Two F-16 fight jets are scrambled (just in case the plane
needs to be shot down). Flight gets diverted. Delayed on tarmac
for hours. Sniffer dogs nosing everyone's baggage. And the
whole thing makes it onto worldwide TV!

Didn't do much for her claustrophobia, I guess.

Heck! It's a good thing she didn't complain about the food, isn't
it?….

Come on! Isn't this "terrorism" nonsense all going a bit too far?
Aren't we all beginning to look just a bit STUPID?!

Aren't the worst terrorists these days the media themselves?

Asoka

P.S. I just discovered something very disturbing…

I've got a brown face! You see, I'm a British Asian! I use the
internet, and I've been "sending messages"!

And sometimes…. sometimes, I don't shave for a day or two!…

Which, put together, can make me look "very suspicious", don't
you think? Rather like the guys on all those terrorist mugshots,
you keep seeing on TV…

Waddya think? Should I be called in for questioning?….

Guess what? I might even be in your neighborhood someday. And I
might STILL not have shaved properly! (Shock! Horror!)

P.P.S Bob Dylan got it just right in Talkin' John Birch Society
Blues. . Check out the lyrics. Just
substitute "Terrorist" for "Red" or "Communist" .

And bear in mind, he wrote over forty years ago. I guess some
idiots never change?

You might like to check out Masters Of War, while you're at it. Just think "Bush/Blair" as you read it.