Super Intelligence Minds

Gary Halbert · whole document (46)

zaza interesting facts

There is a man just like that
lurking in your life and, if I weren't writing this
letter to you to tell you the truth about him, you
would probably be bankrupt by this time next year.

Yadda, yadda, yadda.

Continuing on with Interesting Fact #20 which states, "An ostrich's eye is bigger than its
brain," we might start our sales pitch with wording
similar to that on the following page:

Dear Friend,

Did you know ostriches have
eyes bigger than their brains?

Guess what else? So do 99% of
people who invest in the stock market.

These people watch CNBC, read
the "Wall Street Journal" and participate in
computer chat rooms... and... every time their eyes
process some type of
"too-good-to-be-true" information
into their brains... they make incredibly bad
decisions and lose a healthy chunk of their
hard-earned money.

And they never learn.

Did you also know a goldfish
only has an attention span of three seconds? [Sidepoint:
This is Interesting Fact #26.] This also seems to be
true of many stock market investors. What I mean is,
they seem to have an inability to remember how often
they have already been bilked by MLM scams, new IPO
scams, 900# scams, and over-the-counter bulletin board
companies that have no reporting requirements which
can blithely make claims about the new technology they
have developed which will give your Cadillac 100 miles
to the gallon.

A goldfish is a very poor
learner. After all, if he forgets everything he's been
taught in just three seconds, how could he be expected
to master a simple fact that every time he eats one of
those green and purple-striped worms, he will get sick
to his stomach? He'll just eat the worm, get sick,
forget about it in three seconds, eat another of the
worms, get sick again, forget about it again, and
continue the process adinfinitum. So what? How does
any of this apply to you?