Trading can be a lonely sport. In my early years, I was a hermit. Like Obi-Wan Kenobi alone in a sea of sand with only Banthas and the occasional roving Jawas keeping me company. The solitude was nice, sure. But it wasn’t exactly an environment fostering growth and learning. When you’re the smartest, nay, the only Jedi in the room, elevating your trading skills is a fantasy.

I needed community, a place I could go for inspiration and accountability. A place where seeing others trade made me want to trade. A place where my learning could accelerate while my money mastery multiplied. As a trading coach myself, I was living beneath my privileges. Unlike Obi-Wan I actually knew other trading Jedi, I just didn’t go out of my way to meet them at the Cantina.  I didn’t invite them over to discuss strategy over a friendly game of Dejarik. There was never a Wookiee in the room for me to let win.

I was, as I said, a recluse.

I needed a mentor, someone more skilled, to teach me the ways of the trade. Sure I had a few here and there (one which you’ll meet in the hotly-anticipated Condors for Cash Flow video series coming down the pike), but after I learned the basics and felt comfortable enough to teach the masses, I left for Tatooine.

Now, I wonder about what could have been. What kind of tricks could I have learned from my fellow Jedi? Would I have internalized the need for trading systems quicker? Would I have embraced the law of large numbers and merits of premium selling earlier in my life?

If only I hadn’t ignored that odd fellow I ran into on my first trip to Mos Eisley. There he was preaching to all who would listen about the incredible benefits of TackleTrading. I thought he was one of those pesky Amway salesmen, so I told him to get lost before I introduced him to my lightsaber.

Oh, what could have been!

Fortunately for me, I eventually joined my fellow Jedis, and I’ve had been rocking it ever since. After receiving a taste of community, I decide to go in for the full meal. And it’s been a delight.

Now it’s your turn. Old fogey or trading baby, we don’t care. Come one, come all. Shed your hermitlike life and embrace the glory that is a community.

You’ll become greater than Obi-Wan ever could have. Who knows? If old Ben found the Tatooine chapter of TackleTrading, maybe he would have been the one offing Vader instead of the other way around.

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