If you sketch a graph, you will find three points in the shape of a pyramid for lifecycle of everything.
1-A starting point 2-Peak value and 3- An ending point.
Apply it to anything:
A consumer product starts off with no value, slowly trickles up to reach it’s peak value and then starts falling down until it is no more.
World empires started off, reached it’s peak by influencing the whole world and then slowly disappeared.
We human beings start off at birth, reach peak of our abilities and health and then slowly go down hill.
So my question is where are we in the pyramid of our life ? If you are like me seeing yourself left off the peak point already and going downhill then understand this that you can keep your current position for an extended period of time by avoiding market manipulation and external influence. Be free..... since our value is drawn against time, we can only be free by choosing how we spend our time. Do we spend our time thinking/talking about money/stocks? Or do we spend a good chunk of our time watching netflix series or movies? Look at everyone around you. Do we not all have the same predictable lifestyle? Would it not be easy to control/influence/manipulate us if we all are predictable and same?
If you go into the mind of market manipulator, he/she/it steals your time by over indulgence. You start giving more and more time to what you once liked to do like buying/selling stocks, watching movies/shows, vanity until you start doing things out of necessity even when you do not enjoy it no more like job/chores.
Our time is what they make profit from. Our time should be our time and we should spend it wisely because if you are like me who has already started downhill journey from the peak point time is the most valuable asset. Promises of millions of dollars or long lasting euphoria for my present time is a worthless transaction