The Ahimanyu principle

I had gone to my sister's birthday party and I was chatting with her and nephew when the topic of investment came up; like all people these days, my nephew also wants to go the easy and quick way to become rich.. so invest in stock market! thats when i told him about the Abhimanyu principle.. Whats equally perhaps more important in stock market is to know when to exit and more important, actually exit.
My sister asked, whats abhimanyu principle and how is this connected to stock market? I referred to the story in mahabharata where abhimanyu the famous son of Arjuna could enter the army formation but didnt know how to escape from that and got killed... and it struck me thats true about a lot of things in everyone's life.. we are educated and taught how to enter something buy very rarely how to exit from that...
this is very true in stock market.. reams are written about how to enter.. buy very few people are prepared psychologically and practically to exit from stock.. mutual funds tell you how to invest systmetically.. never how to exit systematically or for that matter to exit.
same thing in career.. one is prepared practically and psychologically to enter career.. no one prepares you for resignation or retirement or when the company is "forced" to ask a person to leave for the inefficiency of the company and there are lots of similar examples in life be it marriage or divorce, birth or death. where there are films on how lovers get married.. no clue on how to leave a person alone... how to get divorced gracefully..
handling birth.. everyone knows how.. to handle death.. no one.. to enter into relationship yes.. to exit nope... how to acquire yes.. how to let go..no.. be young and energetic yes... to leave youth and embrace old age no... how to drive a car not how to stop it when it moves fast
So does it not make sense to teach people how exit, how to leave, let go.. before teaching people to acquire...

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