Professional Poker Player's Mind good for Wallstreet?
The way me and my friends crunch numbers and percentages on the spot makes me wonder about how complex are minds are , then I compare them to wall street job's and the people who work them, the stock market etc , I've never had to work in my life. I mean I work very hard at what I do but I have never had a real 9 to 5 job. And I have never done anything illegal. I have done several ventures in which I made more money then any of my friends who all worked full time jobs and always complained about having no money, I could never understand the concept of working all week and then having no money? I now focus full time on poker in which on any given night you can make 5 to 50,000 playing just online from your living room on a laptop. Self made genius ? See the world works on pieces of paper. Money, Diploma's , Bills etc. Lets take one of those a diploma or certificate.. But really whats a diploma? Someone can goto school for 5 years and spend 50K+ on an education, But I know I can learn everything they did in probably 2 - 6months on my own and then comes the facts of someone learning to be smart, and someone who already is, yeah u can teach a monkey to use a keyboard, but what if the monkey already knew how. You see I have always felt anyone can goto schoo, do a course, get a degree and get a reasonable job, but how many people can make it on there own? a true entrepreneur? Why are all these harvard math genius's dropping out to pursue a career in poker, a career in which the general public classifies as gambling? The mind power is overlooked with so many variables to think of within a 15 second time frame can this exact same super mind be applied to a 300K a year job on wall street? But that rules back to the degree/diploma just because he has a certificate and say I don't what makes him a better candidate? If we erased all the diploma's and focused on people's minds and how advanced each person is wouldnt business's to the extend of a billion dollar firm in wallstreet be more successful? Who knows but its something to think about.
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i know for a fact you cant do what i do in 2-6 months but i can learn a new poker game in 5-10 minutes..
if you look hard enough or maybe not hard enough you can base the same claim on several industries and be both correct and wrong. Why do people go to college? Not everyone wants to be a entrepreneur or make tons of money. Why do people go to college? because you have to if you want to be a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer and yes an investment banker.
and yes you can teach a monkey to play poker too.
Quote: I have never really had a 9 - 5 job...
Says it all
Look up SIG...the idea that poker players make good traders isn't groundbreaking
The fact that you can learn what someone went to school for in 2 - 6 months doesn't mean jackshit in the real world. Having gone and gotten that certificate from a big name business school opens doors for that graduate that you cannot open even if you self-learned the same material. You may be able to learn how to do big M&A deals, but you'll never be in the place that some of these rainmakers are without the degrees, experience, etc.
By the way, I'm not knocking the professional poker route. Poker is an incredible game/way of making a living but your arrogance is pretty distasteful.
Also, just to add, we go to school just to learn and be generally educated among other things as learning a skill we can turn into a career. By reading your passage, I would suggest spending more time focusing on thought process, grammar and general overall writing and communication skills in addition to your apparent vast array of poker skills.
i understand your point, but it looks ridiculous when you try to sell it in a written passage with a myriad of grammar mistakes that makes you lose all credibility.
Not hating...I'm just saying
"You'll be serving my kids fries at a drive-thru on our way to a skiing trip"
This post is just silly.
Hey, he makes 5-50k a night playing poker, he MUST be right!
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