Because of my work, I chose to go back to school for further study after many years, so the change of my identity always gives me a lot of inspiration. This kind of inspiration is sometimes a new acquisition, and more often it is a reflection on the forgotten feelings of one's student days.
On one occasion, I selected a document in a relatively unfamiliar field for a report in the school research group. Due to the professional habit of financial audit, I looked up the data before making a report and found that the corresponding indicators could not be obtained according to the method in the article, so I raised this question when making a report. At this point, an elder immediately smiled contemptuously and said, "This is written by an authoritative expert. He won't use your low method to calculate. " I don't know why, I suddenly felt guilty and had to turn off the screen with a smile.
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After returning home, I thought about it again and again. Why do I suddenly become strange to myself? A lecturer who is almost the most expensive in the industry is too timid to speak on the podium. It suddenly occurred to me that when I was in middle school, my deskmate was the gold medal winner of the National Mathematical Olympics. It can be said that if his answer is different from that in the book, then the book must be wrong.
Once in an exam, I accidentally caught a glimpse that the answer to his first big question was different from mine, and it was very difficult to work out. The result is different from the "standard answer". I panicked and checked again and again. Finally, I didn't have time to do the rest of the questions, and I fell into repeated entanglements: will I change the answer? When it was time to hand in the paper, I made a decision: I won't change it! Because if I change the final answer rashly, I can't write the correct steps to solve the problem. In the end, because all the big questions were blank, I failed in the exam, but I became the only one who answered the first big question.
Later, I learned that the exam was a "psychological training" deliberately arranged by the school. We put the most difficult problems first, so that we can do a good job in psychological construction. If you encounter too difficult questions in the big exam that determines your life in the future, you should learn to skip and not get stuck. But my failure was not blocked by difficulties, but by "authority", and I fell into self-doubt again and again, which made me waste valuable time answering questions. Although there is only one result in the exam, it contains too many things. Sometimes it's not that we are not competent enough, but that we are deducted because of the collapse of our mentality.
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Isn't the deal the same? Thought of here, I poured a glass of red wine, took it to the computer and took a sip with a smile. I vaguely remember that when I was an apprentice ten years ago, the first sentence the teacher said was "You should remember what I said and then forget everything". She often said something I didn't understand at that time, but now I think about it, it is very meaningful. She is the one who led us to start. At first, her strategies and ideas were our "authority", but then she always pushed us out without giving any clear instructions, and even made us think over what went wrong with her strategies. Not only that, she also let us look at the daily market comments, and then write down what are the opposing views and arguments.
This method used to make me confused, even confused. Yes, the way of thinking from one dimension to two or even more dimensions is bound to be an explosive logic and information confusion at first, but after repeated training, they begin to become three-dimensional and clear. The benefits of this way of thinking are obvious. Traders are most afraid of thinking about position anchoring and ignoring the opposite opinions. Especially in the futures market, two-way trading itself is different from the securities market, which increases the trading dimension and profit and loss channels. Futures contracts and stocks have different market cycles and trading frequencies, which require greater flexibility and speed. Therefore, as a securities trader, it may be ok to stick to the rules. Once you become a futures trader, one-way thinking may be fatal.
Look at the pile of notes flush with the table in the corner. Every page of each book is folded in half, with supporting data and information in its own position and arguments in the opposite direction, and then a comprehensive summary is made. If the market obeys universal and authoritative opinions, why do only a few people make money? Having our own thinking and always keeping the spirit of questioning is the key to our survival in the market for many years.
The next day, I appeared in the statistics professor's office early in the morning. As soon as the teacher heard it, I felt that the statistical method was wrong. My first reaction was actually to look at the level of periodicals. Seeing that it is the core top-level journal, I carefully checked it again and again, and finally came to the conclusion that the article marked the wrong statistical method. So, I sent an email to the authoritative author, and he replied: "Statistical tools have never been high or low. The key lies in the people who use them. You did a good job. "
No matter how hard you struggle in the market and how you make progress in your studies, the most important thing is not the specific content, but the ability to think and the courage to question. What we need to pursue is always the method and process: to cultivate our own unique thinking logic, resilience not to be crushed, persistence not to be influenced by any opinions, bold assumptions and careful verification, so as to become the ultimate successful minority, because maybe luck is accidental, but success is not.