5. Every moment in the market is unique.
Take a moment and think about the concept of uniqueness. "Unique" means not like anything else that
exists or has ever existed. As much as we may understand
the concept of uniqueness, our minds don't
deal with it very well on a practical level. As we have already discussed,
our minds are hardwired to
automatically associate (without conscious awareness) anything in the exterior environment that is
similar to anything that is already inside of us in the form of a memory, belief, or attitude.
This creates
an inherent contradiction between the way we naturally think about the world and the way the world
exists. No two moments in the external environment will ever exactly duplicate themselves. To do so,
every atom or every molecule would have to be in the exact same position
they were in some previous
moment.
Not a very likely possibility. Yet, based on the way our minds are designed to process information, we
will experience the "now moment" in the environment as being exactly the same as some previous
moment as it exists inside our minds. If each moment is like no other, then there's nothing
at the level
of your rational experience that can tell you for sure that you "know" what will happen next. So I will
say again, why bother trying to know?! When you try to know, you are,
in essence, trying to be right. I
am not implying here that you can't predict what the market will do next and be right, because you
most certainly can. It's in the trying that you run into all of the problems. If you believe that you
correctly predicted the
market once, you will naturally try to do it again.
