Let me say something.
You know, it's funny, recently, I told a lady to hang out with me. She asked “why?” I said I believed I may get to like her if we got to know each other. She said she wasn't moved by such woe—she actually did say that she was irked by it and wondered why she kept entertaining me.
I was still teasing her, and she was still smiling, so I took the liberty to ask her why? She said she'd have considered giving me her contact if I wholly chose her.
I said, “Would you expect me to lie that I love you as we just met?” She said, “No. But at least you have to like me.” Of course, I joked away; but I thought it was nonsense. Because I'm not going to audition before an indifferent judge.
As I approached her—with the social risks involved in today's society—and made an intention known, it was enough effort. She didn't have to make it any harder. It was more to make her feel temporarily great about herself than an inquiry into the substance of our interaction. Did she even like me, too?
Chasing is premised upon the idea that you'd like her once you get her. I may chase a woman for fun if it would cost me almost nothing in time, reputation, or any valuable resource. Such as flirting with the secretary at the reception while waiting for her boss. It's a low investment. It would keep me busy until I'm called into the office.
But in its real sense: would I ever look to chase? Never. Because it's premised upon the idea that I've totally accepted the woman, and now want her to do the same. The problem with this is that it doesn't give me the opportunity to explore who she truly is, as I run (“chase”) after an idealised image of her. It doesn't even serve her in the long term. But as I've figured, today's popular culture, women care about everything but the long term.
I don't like almost all women I approach, speak with, or flirt with. I like the way they look at the time. It's obviously different. Unless, I've known and studied them closely and sufficiently. The notion driven aggressively by Nigerian men and women that a man hitting on a woman is complete humiliation for the man is born of timidity, stupidity, and a polluted approach towards dating, intimacy or marriage. It's why I used to hit on women unashamedly. I no longer do this often ‘cos the Nigerian environment just makes me overly cautious. I have to respect the culture of where I live.
I don't have to like you in the real sense. I only have to have developed a sufficient level of interest in you and declared it. (This is what the chase/woe should be, especially in the age of false accusations and harrasment charges.) You also must develop such interest in me enough for us to interact. Or at least be willing to allow the chances for such interest to develop without making it look like you're doing me a favour. If you haven't, then there's no need to try. After all, either or both of us could develop likeness in the course of interaction and love in the long term. Or we may not.
One can argue that the bulk of my chasing was/is done under the false and perhaps naive presumption that the lady had such interest in me. Because women are beautiful actresses, it's easy for a man to get carried away. Because on a base level, he wants to believe he, too, is desired by her.
I don't take anything against the lady who insisted that I must like her before she hangs out with me. Given a lot of opinions and arguments on social media over the years, I've figured that people approach sexual dynamics and romance from different perspectives. I've also admitted that largely, what is “normal” to the average Nigerian, is madness to me. So, to each their own. 1/
You think I care about what you’ll say? 🤣🤣🤣 If I had done prostitution before, you think I wouldn’t have made it big? It’s because of my bad mouth and disgust at different men touching me that I didn’t make me go into prostitution.
Look at me na 😤😤
a guy I grew up with sold drugs for 6 years before going legit
we don't talk about it much but one night he was watching me trade and said something that stopped me cold
"you're doing what I used to do but nobody arrests you for it"
"the math is identical"
he broke it down:
"rule one on the street: never risk more than you can reload"
"if you're carrying $10K in product and you lose it all in one move, you're done. no supplier fronts you twice"
"so you split it. 5 drops. $2K each. if one goes bad you eat a $2K loss and keep operating"
that's your position sizing
"rule two: never expand until the current operation is consistent"
"guys who blew up weren't the ones who got caught. they were the ones who scaled before their system was tight"
"they'd go from moving $10K/month to $50K/month because they had one good month"
"then one thing goes wrong at 5x scale and they lose everything"
"that's your traders who go from 1 contract to 10 contracts after a green week"
rule three: your best day should look exactly like your worst day from the outside
"if someone can tell whether you won or lost by how you're acting, you're emotional. and emotional people in my world got killed"
"in yours they just go broke. but the principle is the same"
"rule four: the money is in the boring middle"
"the flashy guys with the cars and the chains? they lasted 18 months"
"the guys who drove Honda Civics and lived in regular apartments? they ran for 12 years"
"rule five: never let the money change your process"
"first big score, everyone changes their behavior. nicer clothes. new car. more risk"
"that's the signal that you're about to lose everything"
"your prop firm guys who blow accounts after their first withdrawal? same thing"
five rules from someone who managed risk when the consequence of getting it wrong wasn't a blown account - it was a prison sentence
and somehow the rules are identical to what every trading book says in 300 pages
the streets teach risk management better than any course because there's no paper trading when the stakes are real