Did you notice the Dow had a rally yesterday? Best day the market has had all year. I'm not surprised after the fantastic blog I wrote yesterday about hope and optimism. I'm sure that there is a direct correlation between the success of the Dow and my blog. This blog is changing the world. Little by little.
Obviously I'm joking here. I don't control Wall Street with this blog. I don't actually control anything with the blog. I just write it. But it raises an interesting point. Have you ever noticed that people (politicians more so) love to take credit when things are going well, and rarely like to take credit when things are not?
Inevitably someone somewhere is going to try to take credit for what happened in the financial markets yesterday. Its no different than what happens at your work, or at home. People have a need to want to feel as though they contributed to a success. It makes them feel successful.
There's nothing wrong with wanting to be associated with something successful. We all want that. But you have to take the good with the bad. Intelligent people know that you have to be willing to take responsibility for things that go wrong, if you want to get some credit for the things that go right.
Or, better yet, really intelligent people realize that alot of things that happen in life just happen. They cant be assigned to any sort of direct human action. Sometimes they just are. Or at least the action that caused the reaction cannot be understood or fathomed by our finite minds at the moment.
The point? Don't go crazy in your life trying to figure everything out. Sometimes you can't figure it all out. It just is what it is. God knows. You don't. That's okay. Give yourself the right to not know everything about everything.
blessings
matt
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