"If a smart person goes into a room with an orangutan and explains whatever his or her idea is, the ape just sits there and eats his banana - but at the end of the explanation, the person with the idea comes out smarter".
That's the 'Orangutan Theory' for you. I mean, the one by Charlie Munger, investment manager at Berkshire Hathaway, or even more famously, partner of the legendary Warren Buffet,
(You'll be sorry if you did a google search to read more about the theory, because all it will tell you is the disgusting truth that your earliest ancestors were, well, apes!)
Going by experience, I feel nothing can be closer to the truth. I spend loads of effort trying to convince someone of my theories, and at the end of it, I find that it was only then that I had understood the entire logic of my argument.
In fact, everytime I write something, I start off bent on educating the ignorant 'rest of the world', but often I find out that I was the one who was being taught by myself!
So this, is a big Thank You, to all my blog buddies, who've bothered to check in here, and kept me putting something in this space regularly......
By the way, tell me how it feels to be an orangutan!
That's the 'Orangutan Theory' for you. I mean, the one by Charlie Munger, investment manager at Berkshire Hathaway, or even more famously, partner of the legendary Warren Buffet,
(You'll be sorry if you did a google search to read more about the theory, because all it will tell you is the disgusting truth that your earliest ancestors were, well, apes!)
Going by experience, I feel nothing can be closer to the truth. I spend loads of effort trying to convince someone of my theories, and at the end of it, I find that it was only then that I had understood the entire logic of my argument.
In fact, everytime I write something, I start off bent on educating the ignorant 'rest of the world', but often I find out that I was the one who was being taught by myself!
So this, is a big Thank You, to all my blog buddies, who've bothered to check in here, and kept me putting something in this space regularly......
By the way, tell me how it feels to be an orangutan!
5 comments:
i'm smiling here ...
just finished reading a great book ... called "The Holy Wild" by Mark Buchanan (a fellow canadian) ... the "wild" part came to mind as i was reading your post (orangutan) ...
blessings on yoru day!
i know what u mean!!!... some people are such orangutans!!!... but now i think i know why i let people in on my ideas even when i know they dont understand anything... maybe its easier to understand urself if u think out aloud... oh well!!... life's weird..
How do I feel? Well, it's nice sitting here and eating my banana.
No, but seriously, does the orangutan learn anything - according to the theory?
P.S. Kinda felt like an orangutan while going through your 'At Home in the Market' blog ;)
Admittedly, finance ain't one of my strong points..
Ab said...
#saija
Ha... so that answers wat i 'wondered'!!!
#the screwed madam
'some people are such orangutans!!!...'
damn rit you are... but its even worse in the reverse. sometimes people ask you so elementary questions in public, like "Brazil is a good football team, na?" that you only want to be anywhere but there. Fortunately I have a friend with who I can trade most of my ideas. And yes, thinking in public helps you understand yrself better
#Jimmy
The Orang has to answer that...
and well, the stock market thing was as simple as I could make it. But again, it was mainly meant for me to understand what I was doing...and no kidding, Iv been just 2 months at the market
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