Yesterday, my son called me **. In the first sentence, he said that his BSE 50 Index** was sold late, and he regretted that he did not sell the BSE 50 Index** in time, making a lot of money. In fact, when the Beijing Stock Exchange 50 Index **a few days ago** was at most, he only made a profit of more than 20%.
After hearing this, I said lightly: "There is no need to dwell on this matter, you are not short of money to spend now." "I know that many old investors and old people with more than ten years of market experience will be tempted when they encounter this kind of profit of ten or twenty percentage points, and they will regret it when they encounter profit taking. How can my son, as an investment novice, have peace of mind when he encounters this kind of profit-taking?
It takes a time to invest and go through life, and although I hope that he will grow sooner, I also know that this is not realistic. Whether it is life or investment, he can't avoid the fate of being a leek first and being harvested by others first.
"Small profit and throwaway" is a manifestation of human nature and a common feature of all leeks. At a young age, my son has already begun to show leek thinking. Although I have told him many times that you should be able to invest well and not care about small profits and losses, he still can't really understand these simple truths. He is still very concerned about investments and small gains and losses in life.
From this point of view, it is inevitable that people will lose money by speculating on the base. My son, who has never been exposed to investment in his twenties, has not read any investment books or been affected by the market, but he comes up with a leek mentality. In the past, I thought that people lost money because they were marketed after entering the market. Now judging from my son's body, people's loss of money is not caused by the external market environment. It's that when people haven't even entered the market, their minds are already full of leek thinking. Leek thinking has nothing to do with whether it is fried or not, and whether it is fried or not.
Even if people's assets are not lost in **and**, they will be lost in other aspects. My wife saw an art course on the Internet the year before last, so she paid thousands of yuan to participate in the Xi, plus buying paper and pens, and spent a total of more than 10,000 yuan. I bought her a large Apple tablet so that she could learn Xi drawing.
As a result, she only studied Xi for a few months, and she never painted again. She used the tablet I bought her no more than twice. In this matter she is a proper leek. Why was she harvested?The main reason is on herself. Because she didn't recognize herself.
The lives of ordinary people are either harvested by work or by houses. Either by education or by marriage. In short, no matter how smart you are, there is always one or a few things that are suitable for harvesting you.
We humans are born with leek genes. Conformity, laziness, arrogance, short-sightedness, and other natural human traits make it easy for us to become leeks to be harvested. Even if we don't become the best leeks, we will be ruthlessly harvested elsewhere.
In my opinion, many ordinary people's lives are in a situation where they harvest less from others and are basically harvested by others. Many so-called successful people just harvest more from others, and are relatively less harvested by others.
No one is perfect, and there will always be a day when he will be harvested. A person should spend most of his life in his most important crops, so as to avoid his one-third of his acre being overharvested by others。Let the rest be reaped.
The weakness of human nature is destined for each of us to be a natural "leek". Harvesting more from the outside world and less harvesting from the outside world is "success". My new book "The Way of Value Investing" Practical Manual, welcome friends to read: