Copycats and Masters are Different

The best book, for stocks, and for everything else, is "Dao De Jing" or the "Book of Power". I also like "Random Walk down the Wall Street" for stock investing.

Here I would like to air some of my thinking about Masters or Average people.

Every great master of the stock market, like any Master in every field, can only exist once. No earlier ones or later ones can be the same as the current Master, e.g. G. Soros. There is only one Confucius, only one Plato, only one Chairman Mao, and so on.

Learning from others can ultimately make someone a professional, but never a Master. Besides learning from others, a true master has to look inside into himself or herself to accumulate inner strength and finally becomes a master. Copycats are forever copycats.

Chairman Mao discovered "the political power comes from the barrel of a gun." G. Soros used the reflex theory in his financial dealings. Bill Gates envisioned that a computer would be on everyone's desk in his early days. All these were not a result of learning alone. That their discoveries will be forever associated with their Masters is because these discoveries are truly from their inner most things.

I encourage people in this group genuinely learn from those who spend his or her precious time in writing down his experience for all of us. At the same time all of us should put up our own efforts about our own experience. Hopefully one day, one true master will emerge among us. The rest of us can be proud that we produce an environment for that Master.

So let's create the nurturing environment first. A master will be born among us, naturally.