BarroMetrics Views: One Step At A Time

“I no longer use actual physical doors or gates to symbolize each transition in my life. When I reread years of diary entries while writing this book, a clear pattern emerged. Each door or gate enabled me to move on to the next level. My life was a series of incremental steps. I am often asked what the single breakthrough was that enabled me to adapt to autism. There was no single breakthrough. It was a series of incremental improvements. My diary entries show very clearly that I was fully aware that when I mastered one door, it was only one step in a whole series”. (Temple Grandin)

If you have never heard of Temple Grandin, you owe it to yourself to at least Google her. Her story is impressive. No less impressive are the memoirs of Singapore’s former President,  S R Nathan (An Unexpected Journey).

Both overcame hurdles and barriers to achieve success in their fields.

What a different picture is cast by aspiring traders!

On the one hand, they fed a constant stream of ‘instant success’, and on the other, too many actively seek an easy path to riches - a path that involves not a twit of expenditure of time, money or effort.  Like or not, in my view, trading is one of the most difficult professions in the world to master; but it is also the most rewarding. In what other field will you have 90% of the competition do their best to give you their money!

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