On... Fooling Around

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I'm always staring at my phone and my laptop, sometimes watching, sometimes listening, sometimes clicking and tapping away.


At a recent holiday, my relatives asked me what I was doing in front of my phone and laptop all day. It's really hard to explain to normies.... I'm watching trading podcasts on Youtube, listening to psychology talks, clicking away on the Sandbox Voxel Editor, reading Twitter, grinding away on Discord channels, listening to Twitter Spaces.... etc. It all just sounds like nonsense. Truly, I don't really know how to explain. I just tell them I am fooling around.... and maybe, that's it. I'm just fooling around. Not doing anything productive.


And my family thinking I'm just fooling around is actually good, not bad. As we all know, trading and investing, is a very difficult space. If it was easy, everyone would be rich. Your net worth can go up and down like a roller coaster day in and day out. You might be working hard all year (whatever working hard actually means in the trading world), and end the year losing money. Now, I don't think there's any other jobs that you work hard all year and end up with less money, not more. Pretty difficult situation isn't it?


So why do I say my family thinking I'm fooling around all day (instead of doing something productive) as something that is good for me? Well, trading is very difficult as we know it. And very stressful on red days,... even worse if its a red month, or a red year. We also know that, to trade or invest, you need to be clear and calm headed when making decisions. Should I buy, Should I hold, Should I sell? Imagine if your mortgage or your next meal (exaggerating a little over here), depend on you making money on your next trading decision. Do you think you can think with a clear mind?


I think the reason I'm kind of doing ok (by my standards) so far is because I don't have the additional stress that I need to make money from my next trade. After all, I'm just fooling around.

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