The longer-term the option, the sillier the results generated by the Black-Scholes option pricing model, and the greater the opportunity for people w… - Michael Lewis

If your ambition is to maximize short-term gain without regard to the long-term cost, you are better off not knowing the cost. If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problems, it's better never to really understand those problems. There is an upside to ignorance, and a downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview.

Perfectionism: the need to be right instead of being right.

It's gonna take a while. It's normal to take a while. You've just gotta fight your way through.