Calming the Mind & the Problem With Fishing

Over the years I have worked hard on calming my mind. Lowering the internal chatter. Moved away from constant stock prices, P&L, systems and other trading ideas that flood it.

Now I just read fiction. I rarely read trading books these days.

And I used to play a lot of golf.

The problem with golf was that my score seemed to be highly correlated with my age – it just went in one direction. I started needing my maths skills more on the golf course than when I was trading.

Which kind of defeated the purpose of playing golf to take my mind off trading.

So I took up fishing instead. Now the thing with my fishing is that I never catch any fish, so my math skills weren’t needed and my mind stayed calm. Problem solved.

Until this hunter-gatherer decided he actually wanted to start catching some fish.

The lures I was using clearly weren’t any good, so being the keen novice I went to BCF and bought some more.

They didn’t work either.

Maybe it was the rod or reel. Or the line.

Back to BCF. A keen novice with a credit card – I’ll take one of everything.

Buy some magazines. Buy some videos. Watch YouTube incessantly. Visit fishing forums. Join the local fishing club.

Still no joy. The fishing gear is taking over the house. One bathroom has become the ‘fishing shed’. Trish hasn’t complained…yet.

Maybe it’s a scam perpetuated by the fishing stores. There really are no fish but they’ll sell me fishing gear anyway.

The Holy Grail of fishing is out there somewhere. I just haven’t bought it yet.

Sound familiar?

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