Independence

3:12 am. I am seated on the couch in the leaving room wondering about life.

Suddenly, something comes to my mind, an insight or some kind of slogan. My subconscious mind is burning now.

INDEPENDENCE SETS YOU FREE

So simple but so complex. 

Some definitions from Cambridge dictionary to Independence:

• the state of wanting or being able to do things FOR YOURSELF an make your own decisions, without help or influence from other people; 

•  the ability to LIVE YOUR LIFE without being helped or influenced by other people;

• FREEDOM from being governed or ruled... 

The complexity of the thing is that when you find your independence, you find your freedom and this process releases you from a lot of things and people that used to rule your life through your dependence on them.

More than ask yourself if you are ready for this freedom is to ask if all those dependent relationships are worthy right now.

Was this dependence relation what was keeping them alive?

Wow! Again, so simple but so complex. Maybe you are going to find answers to questions that shouldn't have been done!

Not anymore

You have been playing an infinite game with a finite game mindset. Then, when you discover your mistake and think about that, the worst happens. You realise that you don't want to play that game anymore. Not anymore. 

Graham Core Principles

* A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.

* The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

* The future value of every investment is a function of its present price. The higher the price you pay, the lower your return will be.

* No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on what Graham called the "margin of safety" - never overpaying, no matter how exciting an investment seems to be - can you minimize your odds of error.
 
* The secret of your financial success is inside of yourself. If you become a critical thinker who takes no Wall Street "fact" on faith, and you invest with patient confidence, you can take steady advantage of even the worst bear markets. By developing your discipline and courage, you can refuse to let other people's mood swings govern your financial destiny. In the end, how your investments behave is much less important than how you behave.