Musings...

I was chatting with my friend the other day and she was feeling miserable as she didnt know what do with her life...she wanted to quit her work and then again got scared about what she will do whole day..so i asked her.. why do u want to quit? she said that she was bored... and as usual i asked the next question.. why are you bored and the predictable answer.. she doesnt enjoy her work.. and that started me thinking on our predictable way of thinking. If A then B where the event A happens leading to event B e.g. i dont enjoy my work hence i am bored or i eat at the roadside stall and got sick or i do hard work hence i am successful or the clouds are heavy hence rain falls.. in all these examples, we start from an event leading to another event i.e. we start from the past and extrapolate to present or future.. Suppose we think in a different way... Rain has to fall hence cloud becomes heavy.. i hv to be successful hence i work hard or my friend has to shift to another job hence she...

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...