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Monday, July 11, 2005

Maybe it *is* about the money.....

Los Angeles Times: Anatomy of Give and Take
"The same reward circuitry activated by cocaine, sports cars, attractive faces and jokes is activated by money. Until now, economists have assumed that money was prized not for itself but only for what it could buy.

Moreover, the prospect of winning money activates specific brain regions in a way that the threat of losing it does not, researchers at Stanford University recently demonstrated."
Now I'm in a terrible quandry, she says. Do I trade each day with a goal of "trading better", or just go for the money aspect and the dopamine high? What to do, what to do....

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moon phases
 

At last, over the rim
of the waiting earth
the moon lifted with
slow majesty
till it swung clear of the horizon and rode off,
free of moorings
- Kenneth Grahame,
The Wind in the Willows

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