Adrian Reid reassures learners overwhelmed by the volume of information when learning to trade stocks. Using a medical-school analogy (comparing the impossibility of consuming every medical text on day one), he argues that high desire and persistent questioning make mastery attainable; he emphasizes a steep but efficient learning curve and asserts that with determination one can be "up and running" in about three months.
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Let me just give you some reassurance about the. The overwhelm. Because again, taking the medical school analogy, picking on my daughter only because it's popular conversation in our house at the moment, her plans and how to make them happen. If. If you decided you wanted to be a brain surgeon and you just went and bought all of the medical journals and all of the textbooks and everything that you would have to know by the time you operated on your first patient, do you think it might be overwhelming? 100%. I mean, there'll be so much to learn, so many technical terms, so many books to read, so many journals to. To consume. It would be almost impossible on day one to kind of fully conceptualize all of that. So I think what really helps is to know that you can do this if your desire is sufficiently high. And I know that because everyone I've dealt with whose desire was sufficiently high has managed to succeed. Right? There are people who come in and go, oh, I really should learn to trade. I feel like I should learn to trade. It's like, you know what? That's not good enough. Like, you won't make it. But if. If you really want it, if you're fascinated by it, and it's like, you know, I really want to learn this, and it's hard. It looks hard, and I'm a bit overwhelmed, but I'm determined you'll be fine. Because all you have to do with that determination is keep asking questions until you get it, and everyone gets it eventually. Now, I'm giving you a lot, and there is a lot of data, and there's more to come. And I, you know, I sort of apologize for that on one hand, but then also sort of don't, because you're learning a new craft, like a new career here. And the amazing thing is you don't have to go to nine years of medical school to do it. You know, four. Four years of undergrad, plus specialization, plus, plus, plus, plus time and all. You don't have to do that.
In three months, you could be well and truly up and running and on your way to mastery.
Because the way the learning curve is constructed, you saw, you heard Patrick say it's, It's. It's fast, right? The learning curve is very steep. It doesn't mean it's not doable. Just means you learn very quickly because everything is one piece on top of the other, and there's no wastage. So it will feel overwhelming, no doubt, but you can do it. You can get there if you just keep one foot in front of the other and keep asking questions. I know because I've seen hundreds of people do it. So just a little bit of reassurance. It's okay to feel like it's a lot, because it is. But you will get there.
