Upcoming personal development/trading conferences/events?

Timmy said:

Meatloaf is playing a concert in Adelaide tonight if that's any help?

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pavilion103 said:

I know these threads can deteriorate rather quicly

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skc said:

That I will do anything for love, but I won't do that (attend Anthony Robbins).

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pavilion103 said:

I know these threads can deteriorate rather quicly,

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Gringotts Bank said:

There's a huge problem with almost all self-development books and courses etc, and it goes unnoticed.

The very moment you try to improve something about yourself, you're reinforcing the belief that there's something wrong to begin with. This then automatically eats away at your self esteem, thereby aggravating the original condition. It feeds on itself in a loop. The worse your confidence, the more courses you need to attend, and so on.

pavillion, I've noticed you're a great student. You've gathered lots of new info since you started. But are you sure you're not stuck in Studyland? Are you making actual trades?

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EW: You write that the alternative to positive thinking isn't despair. What do you see as the alternative?

BE: How about a little realism? How about not seeing the world so totally colored by our own wishes and emotions? For the positive thinker, that means everything looks rosy and everything is going to be all right no matter what, so you have to block out the little warning signs.

For the very depressed person, you're just convinced that everything is going to be miserable, that you're not going to enjoy anything you undertake, that you're going to fail at everything.

There, too, you're just projecting things. It's extremely hard to "see things as they are." It's a project -- we have to consult other people, we get other views, we sometimes have to question other people's views, but that's the only way to proceed, and that's how our species has survived as long as it has.

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pavilion103 said:

hahaha I shouldn't have expected anything less.

There are very few siminars that I find truly valuable tbh. Good experiences every now and then for a bit of a motivational boost.

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captain black said:

The market is a bit of a "dog" at the moment, how about Cesar Millan? He's coming to Adelaide too

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Gringotts Bank said:

There's a huge problem with almost all self-development books and courses etc, and it goes unnoticed.

The very moment you try to improve something about yourself, you're reinforcing the belief that there's something wrong to begin with. This then automatically eats away at your self esteem, thereby aggravating the original condition. It feeds on itself in a loop. The worse your confidence, the more courses you need to attend, and so on.

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motorway said:

Barbara Ehrenreich: The Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
The author talks about how a plague of positive thinking is permeating our society, from medicine to business, and is even contributing to our financial crisis.

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Julia said:

He's actually a terrific dog trainer, or more accurately he's able to explain to dog owners how they are failing their dogs.

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