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The following is an analogy to apply to the lows and challenges in life to reframe them in a context of stock market investments.
Life / Investment analogy:
Stock Investment: If you invest in the stock market and sell every time the market goes down only being happy when it goes up, you’ll go
broke. If you use those down markets as an opportunity to invest more, you’ll make money.
Life: Life has its ups and downs too, these are natural cycles just like the market. So if every time life hits a downturn, you bail, feel like a victim, stop investing your time and effort, you’re missing an investment opportunity. If you use this time to build strengths, be they new skills, better health routines, or clarified analysis of the issues to bolster dealing with them better in the future, you’re investing in life’s lows by considering them opportunities. So when life has its natural up cycles after you've used down cycles to build your skillset, those cycles will be enhanced by the investments you made during the lows.
It’s a variation of the "reframe" or “Use problems to make you stronger” thing, but applying the market analogy. With the stock market you need a long term investment plan, just like in life.
Thank you for your patience in allowing me to use the HB as a notebook as I sometimes do. No buns necessary, bones welcome.
Have a nice day. :)
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Your analogy doesn't work. The less you have the less effective investment is. Sad but true. I'm not saying a person should give up, but needing to work hard and hard work paying off don't correlate. The long term investment plan outlook analogy does work, but that ignores whether you're in immediate need. |
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Taking challenges as an impetus and opportunity to enhance your skills doesn’t necessarily cost anything but time, outlook and determination. |
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But just giving up is always an option, just like never investing your money again. |
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As far as hard work not always paying off, yes, but better odds of a payoff than not working at all. |
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Yes with the stockmarket analogy, when the market is down, you are relatively high compared to it, so you transfer "stuff" from you into it. |
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When -you- are down then you need to transfer stuff from outside into you. |
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This only gets a bun if it is worked up more to explain what the "high" is that gets to transfer stuff into "you" when you are low. |
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The visualization of what that high is and the effort put into achieving it. You get nothing from the outside, you create it. Nobody's coming to help you. Once you realize that it's kind of liberating in a weird way. |
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It's another way to say don't give up, use the challenge to get stronger and stick with it. Wanted a reframe that wasn't so much a Hallmark cart platitude that had something relatively simple to compare it to. Invest more in yourself when you're low like you'd invest more in the stock market when ITS low, but with the anticipation that the investment will lead to greater gains than if those lows weren't hit. |
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Anywhoo, that's the basic idea. No buns necessary, just some Sunday morning musing. |
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>Taking challenges as an impetus and opportunity to enhance your skills doesn’t necessarily cost anything but time, outlook and determination.
I didn't say it does. What I said is, at a personal low point that doesn't pay off more than at a personal high point. In fact, it usually pays off less. I get that you're saying "tough get going", but you're doing it by drawing a bad analogy. At the stock market if you buy low then you can sell high. If you work hard at a personal low, well you've just worked hard. You have a lower chance of success than the same amount of work when you're doing well. |
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It's that low that can exposed WHY you're low and foment the drive to change as necessary to rise up. There's a clarity that comes with challenges, along with motivation. |
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If you're high you don't need to do anything, just like with the stock market. Sit on your yacht with bikini models pouring you champagne. |
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The universe: "Hey, I hear you just quadrupled your million dollar investment! You need to work harder!" |
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Me: "Uh... no. More champagne hon." |
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//If you work hard at a personal low, well you've just worked hard. You have a lower chance of success than the same amount of work when you're doing well.// |
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What I'm saying is the challenges of being on a downturn can create opportunities, motivations, clarity. If you're doing great, yes, you can do better, but for instance, there's going to be a bigger payoff in going from dead broke to buying your first house than from having 3 houses and buying another 6 houses. Or going from being a homeless drug addict to getting clean, getting back to being able to afford an apartment. That's a lot bigger achievement than adding another Lamborghini to your collection. |
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Those low times in life can motivate you to generate skills that create the opportunity to rise up in a more fundamental way than somebody who's not at that low. |
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But that's only with proper investment. Without that you're fucked. |
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Okay, maybe there needs to be an example. A kid had a speech impediment, a lisp and a high voice. It led to a lot of bullying and fights and the kid out of necessity got pretty good at fighting. One time this lonely kid who kept pet pigeons as companions had somebody rip off the head of one of them leading to this kid further develop his boxing skills. His ability was noted by a former boxer at a youth center who took him in and started training him. The kid was Mike Tyson. If he had a normal voice and was raised in a middle class family in a nice neighborhood, well... that's the point. |
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That's one example of investing during the downturns and the motivation those downturns can create. |
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