By understanding a persons level of emotional maturity, we can choose how we engage with them.

HERE’S 5 CORE SIGNS OF EMOTIONAL IMMATURITY 🧵:

1. Highly Defensive: unable to listen to another persons thoughts or feelings without becoming defensive.

Ex: “oh I guess I’m just a terrible person!”
2. Dismissive of Feelings: invalidates, denies, or tries to change the ways person feels in attempt to make themselves more comfortable

Ex: “you’re so sensitive.” “guess you can’t take a joke” “why did you take it that way?”
3. Everything centers around their emotions: everything is brought back to themselves and how they feel father than validating or being curious about the other persons inner world.

Ex: You share how you feel & the response is: “oh well imagine how I FEEL!”
4. Black and White Thinking: attempts to fine safety by having inflexible ideas, opinions, and belief. Has little/no tolerance of other people’s opinions.

Ex: “that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard”
5. Take Everything Personally: feels personally attacked easily. Unable to put their ego aside to have a vulnerable emotional connection because of a fragile sense of self.

Ex: “maybe life would be easier for you if I wasn’t around!”

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I’ve always felt that the luckiest people I know had a talent for recognizing circumstances, not of their own making, that were conducive to a favorable outcome and their ability to quickly take advantage of them.

In other words, dumb luck was just that, it required no awareness on the person’s part, whereas “smart” luck involved awareness followed by action before the circumstances changed.

So, was I “lucky” to be born when I was—nothing I had any control over—and that I came of age just as huge databases and computers were advancing to the point where I could use those tools to write “What Works on Wall Street?” Absolutely.

Was I lucky to start my stock market investments near the peak of interest rates which allowed me to spend the majority of my adult life in a falling rate environment? Yup.