Comments on: The Investment Banker and The Mexican Fisherman http://www.ratracetrap.com/the-rat-race-trap/the-investment-banker-and-the-mexican-fisherman.html Tools to improve your mind and escape the trap Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:47:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: George http://www.ratracetrap.com/the-rat-race-trap/the-investment-banker-and-the-mexican-fisherman.html/comment-page-1#comment-128718 George Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:37:55 +0000 http://www.ratracetrap.com/?p=2010#comment-128718 I never heard this story before but it really has a strong message. Just stumbled upon your blog and just bookmarked it. keep up the good work :) George I never heard this story before but it really has a strong message. Just stumbled upon your blog and just bookmarked it.

keep up the good work :)
George
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]]> By: Oysters with a pearl of wisdom in Mazatlan, Mexico | Stay Adventurous http://www.ratracetrap.com/the-rat-race-trap/the-investment-banker-and-the-mexican-fisherman.html/comment-page-1#comment-67295 Oysters with a pearl of wisdom in Mazatlan, Mexico | Stay Adventurous Thu, 19 May 2011 03:29:59 +0000 http://www.ratracetrap.com/?p=2010#comment-67295 [...] men returned from the sea and our feast began. I began to think about the story of the investment banker and the fisherman. A lesson I learned early in my Wall Street career.  I’ll sum it [...] [...] men returned from the sea and our feast began. I began to think about the story of the investment banker and the fisherman. A lesson I learned early in my Wall Street career.  I’ll sum it [...]

]]> By: The K http://www.ratracetrap.com/the-rat-race-trap/the-investment-banker-and-the-mexican-fisherman.html/comment-page-1#comment-61295 The K Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:22:08 +0000 http://www.ratracetrap.com/?p=2010#comment-61295 Nice!! Nice!!

]]> By: julius http://www.ratracetrap.com/the-rat-race-trap/the-investment-banker-and-the-mexican-fisherman.html/comment-page-1#comment-49647 julius Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:28:06 +0000 http://www.ratracetrap.com/?p=2010#comment-49647 "having lots of money will not buy happiness, but it does buy certain things that add to happiness. With money, your chances of getting a mate increases. With money, you can afford insurance. With money, your chances of moving around from place to place increases. It gives you more options." There is nothing wrong with this reasoning, if all of us keep it that simple. The problem is our appetite for wanting more than we can afford or have keeps groiwng. Eventually, having money that is supposed to add to our happiness gets twisted out of proportion, and we start desiring worldly things that are better off being left alone in the first place, like competition and power over other people's lives, which is how the world really is. In short, there is no end to the means (power and money). This is the vicious cycle we are all caught up in it, even if try to deny it. “having lots of money will not buy happiness, but it does buy certain things that add to happiness. With money, your chances of getting a mate increases. With money, you can afford insurance. With money, your chances of moving around from place to place increases. It gives you more options.”

There is nothing wrong with this reasoning, if all of us keep it that simple. The problem is our appetite for wanting more than we can afford or have keeps groiwng. Eventually, having money that is supposed to add to our happiness gets twisted out of proportion, and we start desiring worldly things that are better off being left alone in the first place, like competition and power over other people’s lives, which is how the world really is. In short, there is no end to the means (power and money). This is the vicious cycle we are all caught up in it, even if try to deny it.
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]]> By: Henway http://www.ratracetrap.com/the-rat-race-trap/the-investment-banker-and-the-mexican-fisherman.html/comment-page-1#comment-49109 Henway Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:05:23 +0000 http://www.ratracetrap.com/?p=2010#comment-49109 having lots of money will not buy happiness, but it does buy certain things that add to happiness. With money, your chances of getting a mate increases. With money, you can afford insurance. With money, your chances of moving around from place to place increases. It gives you more options. having lots of money will not buy happiness, but it does buy certain things that add to happiness. With money, your chances of getting a mate increases. With money, you can afford insurance. With money, your chances of moving around from place to place increases. It gives you more options.
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]]> By: julius http://www.ratracetrap.com/the-rat-race-trap/the-investment-banker-and-the-mexican-fisherman.html/comment-page-1#comment-47714 julius Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:25:55 +0000 http://www.ratracetrap.com/?p=2010#comment-47714 The problem with your "Thinking Big" attitude is you're putting yourself nd everyone else back in the "Rat Race". And not all of the "above people" have done to the world have been good. They ("Thinking Big" people) have actually been the main culprits of polluting the world with their industrious outputs and stressing the lives of the people around them. I don't know about you, but all that ambition lead no nothing in the end because you'll leave it all behind when you die. By the way, the fisherman is not lazy. He still provides for his family's daily food need He just doesn't have your appetite for gluttony The problem with your “Thinking Big” attitude is you’re putting yourself nd everyone else back in the “Rat Race”. And not all of the “above people” have done to the world have been good. They (“Thinking Big” people) have actually been the main culprits of polluting the world with their industrious outputs and stressing the lives of the people around them. I don’t know about you, but all that ambition lead no nothing in the end because you’ll leave it all behind when you die. By the way, the fisherman is not lazy. He still provides for his family’s daily food need He just doesn’t have your appetite for gluttony
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]]> By: julius http://www.ratracetrap.com/the-rat-race-trap/the-investment-banker-and-the-mexican-fisherman.html/comment-page-1#comment-47685 julius Sat, 11 Dec 2010 12:18:36 +0000 http://www.ratracetrap.com/?p=2010#comment-47685 I don't know what happened to my earlier comment but let me try again. Life is too short to chase fame and fortune, when what people are really for in more Romance and Adventure in their life. Just take a look at British tycoon Richard Branson. He's already got all the money he'll ever need and look what he's doing now: Sailing or hot balooning around the world. Now he's trying to fly to outer space. We can already be like Richard Branson without having lots money. People do it all the time. They trade in their houses for a sailboat and sail it around the world; they move to another country and try to make it there, or they leave a job they hate and do something they really like, even if it doesn't make a lot of money for them. Life is too short to try to become rich so you can do whatever it is you want to do later. By the time you reach that goal of having lots of money, you're probably too old to enjoy it. Most people think that having lots of money will buy happiness. That's not true. Happiness is found when you move to a place you've always wanted to live in and do something you've always wanted to do. In my own personal experience, I've already achieved both. Godspeed. I don’t know what happened to my earlier comment but let me try again. Life is too short to chase fame and fortune, when what people are really for in more Romance and Adventure in their life. Just take a look at British tycoon Richard Branson. He’s already got all the money he’ll ever need and look what he’s doing now: Sailing or hot balooning around the world. Now he’s trying to fly to outer space. We can already be like Richard Branson without having lots money. People do it all the time. They trade in their houses for a sailboat and sail it around the world; they move to another country and try to make it there, or they leave a job they hate and do something they really like, even if it doesn’t make a lot of money for them. Life is too short to try to become rich so you can do whatever it is you want to do later. By the time you reach that goal of having lots of money, you’re probably too old to enjoy it. Most people think that having lots of money will buy happiness. That’s not true. Happiness is found when you move to a place you’ve always wanted to live in and do something you’ve always wanted to do. In my own personal experience, I’ve already achieved both. Godspeed.
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]]> By: julius http://www.ratracetrap.com/the-rat-race-trap/the-investment-banker-and-the-mexican-fisherman.html/comment-page-1#comment-47683 julius Sat, 11 Dec 2010 12:08:39 +0000 http://www.ratracetrap.com/?p=2010#comment-47683 hi hi
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]]> By: Abioye Coker-Dickens http://www.ratracetrap.com/the-rat-race-trap/the-investment-banker-and-the-mexican-fisherman.html/comment-page-1#comment-42135 Abioye Coker-Dickens Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:06:14 +0000 http://www.ratracetrap.com/?p=2010#comment-42135 so what's wrong with the I-Banker's suggestion?? The fisherman is just a lazy unambitious moron. I thought so when I read this story the first time and I think so now. With a large enterprise and lots of money, the fisherman could develop his village, provide employment to several people, subsidize health care and build good schools. Only a lazy fellow would dream of spending his days the way the fisherman has suggested. Mind you, the banker did not try to convince him to get a job trading FISH futures on wall street, he only advised him to THINK BIG and convert a tiny fishing venture into something bigger. He will actually be adding value to society. If thinking big is a bad thing, I'm certain Bill Gates, Oprah, Jeff Bezos, The Walton Family and several dot com heavyweights (that have made sites like this possible) are all very evil people. Before you find comfort in your mediocrity, think of the good the above people have done to the world because they chose to think big and not to have siestas with their wives or play guitars with their amigos all day. so what’s wrong with the I-Banker’s suggestion??

The fisherman is just a lazy unambitious moron. I thought so when I read this story the first time and I think so now.

With a large enterprise and lots of money, the fisherman could develop his village, provide employment to several people, subsidize health care and build good schools. Only a lazy fellow would dream of spending his days the way the fisherman has suggested.

Mind you, the banker did not try to convince him to get a job trading FISH futures on wall street, he only advised him to THINK BIG and convert a tiny fishing venture into something bigger. He will actually be adding value to society.

If thinking big is a bad thing, I’m certain Bill Gates, Oprah, Jeff Bezos, The Walton Family and several dot com heavyweights (that have made sites like this possible) are all very evil people.

Before you find comfort in your mediocrity, think of the good the above people have done to the world because they chose to think big and not to have siestas with their wives or play guitars with their amigos all day.

]]> By: Mel http://www.ratracetrap.com/the-rat-race-trap/the-investment-banker-and-the-mexican-fisherman.html/comment-page-1#comment-33791 Mel Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:47:11 +0000 http://www.ratracetrap.com/?p=2010#comment-33791 I've never heard this before but it's SO TRUE!! Brilliant, I love it. Thank you so much for sharing. I’ve never heard this before but it’s SO TRUE!! Brilliant, I love it. Thank you so much for sharing.

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