BS: and I thought I was so smart

Subject: RE: BS: and I thought I was so smart
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 12:17 PM

Maybe Spaw, I guess its not so much stupidity as it is too little courage.

Subject: RE: BS: and I thought I was so smart
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 12:14 PM

Sounds like a scene from the great funny movie Defending your Life.

btw nor did I buy gold or google 5 years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: and I thought I was so smart
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 07:28 AM

Donuel old buddy, I personally believe that your post is a load of crap. Here's why.

No sane person makes bad decisions. In any of the things you list did you say to yourself, "Geeziz, this is a really stupid ass thing to do/think, but I'm determined to fuck up so I'm going ahead anyway." That's nuts. We do the best we can with the knowledge we have at the time. Later it turns out to be a truly awful decision but so what? NOT making a decision is far worse.

Successful business people will tell you that probably 75% or more of their decisions are wrong and they need to make adjustments and additional decisions. When they hit one out of the park it was probably the last in a list of "bad" decisions.

If you learn from what you do and do not repeat things that don't work, you're a success.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: and I thought I was so smart
From: gnu
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 05:48 AM

Wasn't it Bill Gates who said, "Noone will ever need any more than 64k." or sommat?

Subject: RE: BS: and I thought I was so smart
From: Rowan
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 12:54 AM

Sounds like life's normal processes to me.

But then, I suppose I'm not particularly smart.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: and I thought I was so smart
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Nov 07 - 10:44 PM

Somehow, I feel that I should contribute to this this thread, but somehow all that comes to mind is that I am contributing to a thread on Mudcat...

Subject: RE: BS: and I thought I was so smart
From: Amos
Date: 07 Nov 07 - 07:30 PM

I well remember in 1980, putting my savings into a hot stock tip called Brewer, a company which was bound to explode when its new technology for converting biomass into fuel took off. It seemed inevitable to me. It shrank and shrank, and finally disappeared.

If I had just put the money in a stock index fund, I woulda been much smarter.

And I coulda bought Apple in its first decade, too.

Sigh...


A

Subject: RE: BS: and I thought I was so smart
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Nov 07 - 07:20 PM

Now, listen up, Donuel... Woody Allen once said that life is a crap shoot... That;s about it... I reckon that if Bill Gates were to be honest he'd have his own list of failures... That's life... No one wins 'um all...

I mean, lets get real here... You live in one of the most prestigious neighborhoods in the most powerfull city in the world... You couldn't have gotten there if all your decissions were loosers... You apparently have a few wins in the win colume to offset the losses...

Keep yer chin up and be glad that you didn't wake up this morning wondering what it would be like to break into the National Zoo and climb the fence to hang out with the alligators...

Perspective, my man, persepctive...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: and I thought I was so smart
From: artbrooks
Date: 07 Nov 07 - 06:43 PM

In (I think) 1976, when I was working in Seattle, a friend of a friend offered me the opportunity to buy stock in a new company being started by a guy named Gates. I had a new baby and no money to spare. Oh well, who would ever want to have their own computer at home?

Subject: RE: BS: and I thought I was so smart
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 07 Nov 07 - 06:33 PM

Back in 1996 I worked for a mailing company that handled the prospectuses for the IPO of a new company named Yahoo. I remember thinking, "What kind of idiot would name a company 'Yahoo'? That company's never going anywhere."

Subject: RE: BS: and I thought I was so smart
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Nov 07 - 05:05 PM

edit (it was Sulpher - not Sodium)

Subject: BS: and I thought I was so smart
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Nov 07 - 05:01 PM

Mistakes, we all make em. The ones that are the most irksome are the ones I was sooo sure about at the time.
Like some people who thought electing A George _W Bush 3 times must be a good idea despite the Iraq wars and Banking Corruption each and every time.

I was sooo sure that selling my Apple stock was a good idea at 130.
Well its now at 186 despite the recent crash.

I was so sure that my website would not be deleted by a faceless corporation since I was paying them good money.

I was so sure that my neighbors would share my opinion of a corrupt managed health care system and the hypocrisy of the religious right.

I was so sure that "all" Mudcat contributors are a well meaning highly reasoned group of left leaning folksingers.

I was almost postitive that Bill O and Rush would have succumbed to mob violence.

I really thought that GM would keep making more electric cars instead of continually losing more money than other car makers combined.

I really thought that the cool Sodium light bulb that makes 99% sunlight would beat out the poisonous mercury flouresent bulb.

I'm betting that if a poll were done asking if you thought you were more intelliegent than most people, 95% would say yes.

There are no solutions, answers or options to these failures in correct decision making
.
It is said however that no one ever went broke betting that people are far more stupid than we think. I guess that includes me too.