Comments on: Gold Bull: The Dark Side http://www.arcticgoldfinger.com/2007/11/19/gold-bull-the-dark-side/ Biased Opinions on Gold from the North's Leading Expert (self-styled) Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:23:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Gold Bull: The Dark Side http://www.arcticgoldfinger.com/2007/11/19/gold-bull-the-dark-side/#comment-89 Gold Bull: The Dark Side Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:12:03 +0000 http://www.arcticgoldfinger.com/2007/11/19/gold-bull-the-dark-side/#comment-89 [...] herb wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptMagical thinking seems to be a basic human trait. There is some innate optimism that makes us think that we can “defy the odds.” There is no better tribute to the power of magical thinking than Las Vegas. I used to be quite a gambler myself. For some reason I thought that some Higher Power would make the dice hop down the table and come out my way. I didn’t just think that I might win. I EXPECTED to win. Sometimes I did and sometimes I didn’t. But my intellectual understanding that the odds were against me never shook the feeling that I was going to get lucky. I eventually learned, however, that my wishes and desires are not a factor in the way things turn out. I still like to gamble, but now know that I need to be “lucky” and (a) it […] [...] […] herb wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptMagical thinking seems to be a basic human trait. There is some innate optimism that makes us think that we can “defy the odds.” There is no better tribute to the power of magical thinking than Las Vegas. I used to be quite a gambler myself. For some reason I thought that some Higher Power would make the dice hop down the table and come out my way. I didn’t just think that I might win. I EXPECTED to win. Sometimes I did and sometimes I didn’t. But my intellectual understanding that the odds were against me never shook the feeling that I was going to get lucky. I eventually learned, however, that my wishes and desires are not a factor in the way things turn out. I still like to gamble, but now know that I need to be “lucky” and (a) it […] […]

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