Feb 20 2008
Eat, drink and sleep in it
If you want to be a good trader, you have to live it, said Lisa, a supportive wife of fellow CCIers. She said I would appreciate it very much. She’s absolutely on target. I told her about my English learning experience: early on, I couldn’t even count to ten in English. To make sure I didn’t miss a 0 or 1, I first counted in Chinese silently then translated the result into English. Because counting and speaking English are two separate tasks that I was unable to perform simultaneously. Long ago in Hong Kong, one of my photography buddies asked me which dialect do I think in, Mandarin or Cantonese. I replied Mandarin. He said, “no, if you want to learn Cantonese, try to think in Cantonese.” Now I can do both with ease, accent aside. It came after years of practice, learning it and doing it. Same goes with trading.