The Dark Horse (Lesson from the Stock Market)
Lesson from the Stock market It is easy to look at situations in retrospect, and it usually lures us into thinking that the pieces were meant to come together like a puzzle, but it is the exact opposite. Like Steve Jobs said, " Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. " The dark horses are similar to under-valued stocks. Let's look at Capitec (JSE: CPI in 2000 compared to 2021) or Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN in 1997 compared to 2021); many stocks fit this comparison. One lesson I got from their exponential rise is that the majority and its analysts are always wrong. Paul Rulkens said in his Ted Talk something like " to be a high performer and achieve extraordinary results, you have to think...