Brain Synchronization
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 8:20AM
To the people who bought my book How Traders Achieve Creative Flow; brain syncing should be thought of as the sixth habit of highly creative traders.
I recently received an e-mail from Amazon.com ($AMZN) stating that Kipp Poe Speicherstarted following me on kindle.amazon.com. According to Twitter, Kipp is an author, independent filmmaker, and a dreamer. Kipp follows me on Twitter and vice-versa.
From now on, every time I highlight and take notes in a Kindle book, Kipp will have access to this information.
Now imagine if I could follow George Soros on Kindle. It would be a different game, wouldn’t it? If Soros highlights a passage and writes notes in a book about trading, I should pay attention because the information could lead to powerful insights about trading. I could access Soros’s brain and his insights in almost real time. You can’t beat that.
Wouldn’t it also be great to access Einstein thinking as he read physics books a few decades ago?
This process of exchanging sophisticated thinking with minimal friction is what I call brain synchronization. You can sync your brain to the insights or ideas of people capable of elevating you. This powerful idea will radically change the processes we use to acquire knowledge.
There is a lot of information on social media platforms right now, but most of it is not intelligent enough to elevate you. It buries you.
In my opinion, some intelligent information will gravitate to the written words in electronic books that will be social-media enabled to facilitate brain synchronization. Trading insights are better digested while reading peacefully in solitude.
Amazon.com$AMZN is the company that is making this a reality as we speak. It will be truly awesome the day Amazon.com pushes this information from people I follow to my Kindle on a daily basis.
I want to drink from that fountain of knowledge and insights. How about you?
From now on, I will be posting trading insights derived from reading awesome trading/investing books under the Twitter hashtag #tradinginsight.
Written by Michael Bigger. Follow me on Twitter and StockTwits.
Reader Comments (2)
You're line, "Trading insights are better digested while reading peacefully in solitude" , is true. The brain producing more Alpha waves (associated with a relaxed but highly aware state) is more conducive to learning.
Andrew Menaker PhD
Andrew,
I am reading your blog now. So you are Popdoctrader! ;-)