Waiting for the Aha! Factor to Kick In

[AzRusty]

I keep thinking that if I do this stuff long enough it will all become clear. Sooner or later it will gel and I will understand!

I have followed a writer for Scientific American for years named Martin Gardner. He penned a book quite a few years ago entitled
Ah! Insight. Very interesting.

I have experienced this feeling in trying to learn how to play music. Finally getting those tough chords on the guitar, finally getting my lips, tongue, and fingers to work synchronously in playing trumpet, getting my fingers, brain and feet to work together playing pipe organ. etc, etc, etc. Other insights and aha's.. finally getting a synthesis reaction to work out properly in chemistry and finally understanding how "ontology racapitulates phylogeny" in comparative anatomy.

With what I do.. treating patients in a chiropractic office I have come to believe that a patient only has four questions.

1. What is it?
2. Can you "fix" it?
3. How long is it going to take?
4. What's it going to cost?

That's it! And if I can't explain and answer those questions in simple English in a few minutes then I shouldn't be doing what I am doing. Of course, sometimes the answer is I don't know. Then you refer out for more information or treatment.

I took myself off another board right after the superbowl when I went into a rant. I made an analogy about a convict enjoying his shower all happy and content (well as happy and content as a convict can be, I guess). When he.. uh, dropped the soap. As he bent over to get the soap he got "nailed" from behind by his cell-mate, Pointspread!

So I remain a follower of expert opinion. And I'm not a consensus player. I don't think that really works. Who's to say that the consensus of plays is not based on only one or two opinions? You just can't tell!

Anyone interested in Martin Gardner books. Here's a link.
http://thinks.com/books/gardner.htm

Sooner or later this stuff is BOUND to make sense!

AzRusty

 

[djv]

It Might

But It took a long time for me. Im still finding things here I either forgot or never new. When it seems like a blur. That is time out time. Take a week off from all of it. Do something else. The thought is gosh I might miss a good play. Yes/No/Maybe.

 

[kcwolf]

So true djv!

Just when you think you have it figured out in sports gambling - TAKE a break if you have the power.

No such think in this profession as having it figured out.

Az, interesting point on the consensus. I'll share one idiot's example: Three or four years ago, I used to go to Big Guy every day hoping for a better way of "handicapping". This is after capping my own games for TWENTY years!

Yes I think we all loose sight of the winning road from time to time, but I just gave you the best example I can come up with.

I've never gone to Big Guy consensus again. I should clarify that. I might go there two or three times a month, after I bet my plays, to get a good chuckle.

Best lesson I learned in the last few years. Learn to cap your own games and get good at it. If that's not in the cards for you or I, we must quit or work harder to get successful.

Enough rambling and hope this made a little sense. I always write off the cuff and very fast. (Makes me look like an idiot more than once!)

kcwolf

 

[fletcher]

i also try to get my lips,fingers and tougue synchroized on my wife,in hopes she can find the pipe organ,then i will show the aha factor

 

[AzRusty]

Very Good comeback Fletcher....

You are definitely my kind of guy. Very Sick! Well... I take that back. You sound like a normal red-blooded horny American male! Just like me.

The thing that upsets me at times about following the expert players on this board is that sometimes even they have very bad days. You will remember Fletcher on that Thursday of the NCAA basketball playoffs. I followed your picks ... and you went something like 0-9, 1-8.. whatever it was. A very bad day. And yes, I rode your picks.
Arrrrrgggggghhhhhhh. I think I took a few days off. And I saw you come back on the board telling everyone to quit their bitcching.. That you lost your ass. If anyone found it please mail it to you. So did I but not to the extent that I think you did.

My point is. That even good players like Nolan, Jack, Raymond, Fletcher.. lotsa people can have disastrous days.

At least if I have a bad day at work nobody dies! And I'm not bankrupt. Well.. hopefully none of you are either. But if I played the stakes YOU GUYS do.. I would be broke broke broke! That's why I play itty bitty plays.

I asked a chiropractor about twenty years ago what his worst day in practice was. He said.. uh......... lemme think. Oh yes. Three people died in this office all in the same day.

I went ... NO Chit???

Yep... second patient of the day. Came in and was filling out papers as a new patient. He had a heart attack. Was dead before the paramedics arrived.

Right after lunch he adjusted a sixty year old man. As the guy got up from the table. HE fell over with a heart attack. Dead before they could get him out the door.

Just before closing time an eleven year old kid was CARRIED into the office after being "karate chopped" or "khung fuued" at school. The kid was lapsing in and out of consiousness. He died before anything else could be done. The post-mortem revealed that the kid had had his spinal cord decapitated by a kid who nailed him with a quick chop to the base of the skull. The kid who did it was just messing around "pretending" doing a move he saw on tv or the movies.

Why take a kid like this who is obviously in a lot of trouble to a chiropractor's office? Beats me. The world is full of dumb asses!

Now that's a really bad day!

The worst thing that happened to me today was that I examined a 20 year old hispanic female and found that she has a probable blown L5 disc. Very young to have this kind of problem. And of course.. she has no money and no insurance. But there is an old worker's comp. case that I am going to try to get re-opened so that we can refer her out for an MRI and possible surgery (by a neurosurgeon.. not me.. duh.)

By the way. I have been testing a hypothesis that with a small investment that with smart plays and good money management that over the course of time I can make a lot of money. I still think it's possible. But it may take a LOT longer than I thought.

My original premise was that I would start with 400 dollars. Build it up so that I could siphon off about 1400 dollars a month from my winnings and buy more stock.. such as internet, dot com stuff, high tech, and telecommunications stock! YOU Know.. Sure things that would make me LOTS of money!!!

Mo Money! Yeah... that's the ticket!

It didn't work!

Thank GOD

AzRusty

 

[fletcher]

it will.if you keep working and find the style that fits you,then it will payoff.
belive me my first 2 years of just doing this and nothing else were a night mare,its like anything else,you have to fail before you can move forward.hang in there and good luck.
no i'm sick

[This message has been edited by fletcher (edited 05-14-2001).]

 

[djv]

Fletch you are so right. We learn from our mistakes. I still right somethings down just to remind myself. There is no tougher way to learn. And if doing this was easy. Well we would all give up our day jobs. There only a few of you that can do it.