Patience
Life has taught me to learn from my mistakes. No piece of advice was ever good enough. The most human of traits I exhibited was the vanity of hardheadedness.
I have the ability to take a well meaning suggestion and bastardize it into a self-serving ego rub'n'tug worthy of a Midtown Manhattan "nail salon".
So do you.
I never had the patience to listen. I had to learn the hard way. I see many of you guys doing the same. I don't feel one way or another about it. That is how it is.
“God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction”
This is a great line, though it requires more patience than intellect. The fact that it comes from an Anglican clergyman with familial roots in the British East India Company does not escape the paradox friendly among us.
I write about patience today, because it is one of the great stabilizers and simultaneous volatility inducers in markets and in life. When one takes the truly macro view of life, realizing his/her own microscopic insignificance in the grand scheme of it all, patience can bathe away the foulest stink of failure, the most scathing sense of worthlessness and even the blood thirsty hunger for revenge.
I am reaching an age where I do a better job of recognizing of "what is" as opposed to "what I want it to be". Believe me you flea chewing chimps, this is not as simple as it seems.
Patience. Simply letting life do it's thing while you do yours. It is not the answer anyone is looking for, but it is the ultimate answer. The good running back breaks tackles and runs away from tacklers. The great running back waits for a hole to open up wide and jogs a leisurely 80 for 6.
It is crucial to have an internal frame of reference. Most young people are external and cling to values that have been bestowed upon them by parents and society. I have burned enough Benjamins, slayed enough Dragon Ladies and had my mandible righteously rattled by fisticuffs enough times to learn that you can't get it until you got it.
Read a little sales huckster hustle theory ...then ask yourself:
"Am I internal or external?"
Do my values reflect my true self or the image I was taught to project.
Do I really want this life I'm pursuing? Or am I swimming upstream because I lack the patience to let my blocking do its job?
All in time, guys.
All in time.
The job, the money, the women, the cars, the happiness, the serenity, the chance to finally act out the murder fantasy featuring the triple chinned Jabbarious D. Hutten MD of choice ruining your youth...it will all come.
In time.
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Nice indeed.
A Wise Man Once Said: " This Too Shall Pass"
Amen to that, Midas. Amen.
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"The good running back breaks tackles and runs away from tacklers. The great running back waits for a hole to open up wide and jogs a leisurely 80 for 6."
However, the best running back knows when to break tackles and when to wait for a hole.
Sounds like you've given up.
What is the meaning of this post?
i love the west garden
So are you telling me I should smoke weed every day?
Only if its the
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Finance & my diminishing patience (Originally Posted: 07/11/2009)
I doubt I'm the only one experiencing this, but I've noticed that I am slowly becoming bad-tempered. I rush human interactions and get easily irritated by the slightest hesitation. I've caught myself yelling at my girl/brother/parents/friends...which I never did before, next one on the list is my boss.
But seriously, my theory for this is that when you sit behind a computer 12+ hours a day, and the computer never hesitates/always outputs what you want/easy to manage (most of the time), you tend to expect the same type of performance from the people around you. So when they don't deliver up to your expectations, you get pissed off.
Thank god for weekends.
Probably not the answer you were looking for, but it gets easier as you get older.
This used to be such a problem for me (now it is more of a constant, but manageable, irritation).
My second marriage was a goddamned nightmare because of this. At work I'm used to people following my commands instantaneously and without question. When I'd get home, it was another story. First of all, don't ever marry an aspiring actress (or model, or any other image-based profession) because the first time she appears in a 30-second commercial for the local tire store, she'll think she's Meryl-fucking-Streep and your life becomes hell (but that's a tale for another time).
I swear, if I told my second wife not to stare at the sun, the first fucking word out of that nitwit's mouth would be, "Why?" I cannot begin to describe the utter repugnance of that word to me, even today. It just seems to me that if I told you to do something, that should be enough.
You know who gets this? Other highly-intelligent people. If you tell a genius to do something, 9 times out of 10 he'll do it without question because he knows you have a good reason for it. It's only the morons that want to know, "Why?"
Anyway, not to get on a rant here. As you get older, you come to expect less and less from the general population. It's disappointing, but that's life.
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I can understand if your co-workers would do this because it's likely that you have expertise that they lack, but why would you expect your peers to do exactly what you ask them without question? Do they not have the ability to make decisions on their own?
I think its the ambition and i always felt it had something to do with ny also(if you live there). Life in the city is extremely fast paced and most people only want to mind their own business. There is a lot of pent up aggression/ambition for those in finance because i'm sure many people are finding their get-rich-quick plans in finance more difficult than expected, especially in this economy. You try to be work and career focused but its hard to feel it paying off, and then there are those around you (friends/family who aren't finance or classmates/colleagues you comepete against) who you don't feel like understand what you are going through.
I found myself becomming so focused on finance related things that i was also becomming critical of everything else around me to justify my "obsession" with finance. And anytime someone does or says something that questions my focus, i was lashing back at them sort of with a "you're a fucking idoit who doesnt know what you are talking about" kind of attitude. Of course sitting in front of a computer all those hours doesn't help. I also watched some of my friends change over the years into people that get irritated extremely fast. I think it's important to take interest in things outside of finance and not get too caught up with the more materialistic side of your ambitions.
Patience is a Virtue (Originally Posted: 02/01/2014)
Tis the season of post-superday stress. Anyone heard back from the Goldman Securities super day on Thursday?
At times, there is nothing harder than the simple act of waiting.
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