Anon_92 wrote:
This is going to sound really stupid, but can't everyone predict stocks?
If everyone could, there would be a lot less opportunity in the market. My mother lived on stocks, but I prefer to use my brains productively. I did manage to predict a real-estate turn to the month, though, when a friend was interested, and tried to buy gold the day it was at a rare bottom, but didn't know how.
Focussed talents are generally useless in isolation. We either need to be renaissance men, equally good at sales jobs, or find partners to create a viable enterprise. A bank will never loan money to a company made of only engineers, even if they come to the meeting in floating bubbles. If you find a video of a guy with a encyclopedic memory, there will be another guy with him doing the introductions and telling the crowd how amazing he is. Kim Peak depended on his father, and Walt Disney needed his brother Roy to get things done.