I started this blog in the hopes of chronicling my success. I had a notion that jumping into a stock trading/ investment lifestyle was going to be immediately rewarding.
As i've found, i have many personal limitations, that have prevented me from improving my life before. Chained to the Desk was very revealing, in that I am indeed caught in a cycle of being fixated on work. There were several very helpful lessons i learned in the book:
1. work addiction is all about getting a buzz off of work. that buzz is found in the adrenaline rush that an addict gets from taking on more projects, getting more recognition, or gaining control over more people/responsiblities.
2. work addicts are essentially assholes, because they hog all the work to protect their buzz. workign within a team and consensus-building are antitidotes to their buzz.
3. running on adrenaline all the time warps one's judgement. Workaholics are very impulsive and unreasonable.
4. there are workaholic environments, which directly or indirectly foster work addiction. I work in one of these environments.
5. I am not so much a work addict (although i do have many of the addict characteristics), as I am an addict of my own adrenaline. i can get my buzz from many things: driving fast, arguing, partying, etc. Abstinence is not really an option.
I am lost as to my path of recovery.
I am fearful that trading will create a buzz and I'll lose everything.
I am committed to fixing this, i just dont really know how, exactly
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