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Hedge Fund Manager: Goodbye … And Think Pot

Something to think about…

In other news, this market remains a day trader’s market. Take your gains quick and cut your losses.

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Oprah Winfrey’s 2008 Stanford Commencement Address

Oprah Winfrey’s 2008 Stanford Commencement Address

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Contact Me

The best way to contact me is posting a comment on any of my posts. I will get an e-mail notification for every comment posted even on my older posts.

Alternatively you can contact me at: KevinH (at) Stockkevin (dot) com

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One Hundred Push Ups

Words from Steve’s site

“If you’re serious about increasing your strength, follow this six week training program and you’ll soon be on your way to completing 100 consecutive push ups!

Think there’s no way you could do this? I think you can! All you need is a good plan, plenty of discipline and about 30 minutes a week to achive this goal!

No doubt some of you can already do 50 consecutive push ups, but let’s face it, you’re in a big minority. Most of you reading this won’t even be able to manage 20 pushups. Actually, I’m sure many of you can’t even do 10.

However, it really doesn’t matter which group you fall into. If you follow the progressive push ups training program, I’m positive you’ll soon be able to do 100 push ups!”

I will be beginning this challenge tomorrow on Monday, June 30th and end August 1st.

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Searching for Bobby Fischer

“Robert James “Bobby” Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American-born chess Grandmaster, and the eleventh World Chess Champion.” – Wikipedia
This movie is not about Bobby Fischer. It’s actually about Josh Waitzkin’s childhood and chess.

“In this film, Josh Waitzkin’s family discovers that he possesses a gift for chess and they seek to nurture it. They hire a strict instructor, Bruce Pandolfini (played by Ben Kingsley) who aims to teach the boy to be as aggressive as Bobby Fischer. The title of the film is a metaphor about the character’s quest to adopt the ideal of Fischer and his determination to win at any price. The main conflict in the film arises when Josh refuses to adopt Fischer’s misanthropic frame of reference. Josh then goes on to win on his own terms with the kind of gracious sportsmanship that Fischer rejects.” –Wikipedia

In real life, Josh wrote a book titled The Art of Learning : A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence, where he discusses how he learned (some would say mastered) two different disciplines- chess and tai chi.

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Enjoy Life; The Journey

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Optimal Hours to Work

For some reason, I work best during the day and late at night.

I am talking about 8:00am to Noon and then from 11:30pm to 2:30am. The hours in between Noon and 11:30pm, are the worst times for me to do any learning or studying. It doesn’t matter how much “will” I have during the afternoon, my brain won’t cooperate. I can sit there and look at the book, but the brain will not absorb it. I am beginning to think I have attention deficit disorder and should consider taking some medication. Maybe then I can buckle down and learn what I need to learn in shorter amounts of time.

Alternative? Take a nap, you say? For that to work, you’d have to assume that when I do wake up from the nap I won’t be even more lethargic. This could work, I’d just have to find a way to keep the sunlight and heat out of my room. I don’t know why, but just the midday environment makes my mind stray and wander all over the place. At night, when it’s dark, I feel like I can zero in on my task and complete them more readily and easily.

I know I am not alone. What is it about being able to get things done more easily at night?

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My General Sentiment on Life At This Moment Can Be Best Described By….

His co-worker Freamon is the man who found a balance between his work life and his private self, an equilibrium that came at a price. Freamon languished for 13 years-and four months- in the Kafkaesque hell of the department’s pawn-shop unit before he finally transferred in Lt. Cedric Daniels’ investigative unit. And it’s Freamon who tries to slap some verbal sense into McNulty whenever the young detective lets his impatient heart get in front of his head

“A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the shit that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come.”

-Lester Freamon on The Wire

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Zen Habits

Zen Habits is a great personal development site.

Leo wrote a post on 20 things he wished he had known when he started life out.

Below is a quote from his post.

“All that stuff that’s stressing you out — it won’t matter in 5 years, let alone 15. When things are happening to you right now, they mean all the world. I had deadlines and projects and people breathing down my neck, and my stress levels went through the roof. I don’t regret the hard work (see above) but I think I would have been less stressed if I could have just realized that it wouldn’t matter a single bit just a few years down the road. Perspective is a good thing to learn.”

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Multiple Mental Mind Sets All in the Same Day

Some days can be mentally draining- situations arise and at times it can get rough both mentally and physically. I get to work at 8:00am and spend about seven hours there. Then it’s off to class until 7:00pm. In between work and class, I spend around an hour to two hours at the gym. Through in networking with professionals, starting a club, a social life, and you can see how little time I have for anything else. However, the biggest challenge I have is NOT managing my time. Somehow, I always find enough time to do what I need to do.

The biggest challenge is preparing my mind for the situation on hand. When I am at work, my mentality is different from that of when I am in class. With only thirty minutes in between work and class, I find myself struggling to make the mental gear change (especially if I have an exam in class). I spend seven hours at work, where the focus is on production and efficiency, which after a while turns into repetitious routine (you establish an efficient system), then in class it’s largely about thinking outside of the box and breaking outside of the routine (learning concepts and ideas that you have not been exposed to). I’d rather not try to be “Jack-of-all-trade” in terms of taking on multiple roles. Like I mentioned before it’s mentally exhausting.

Some day you just have to muscle through it. But there comes a time when you have to reevaluate the situation and figure out if what you are doing is the best way to allocate your mental energy.

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