TC, can't speak to the commercial prospect of your situation but I would think it should, some way or other, be feasible. May not be easy but success and honesty provide an excellent foundation.
On the other hand, for good reasons or bad (hopefully not the latter, but ... <g>) I am fascinated by the cognitive process of this kind of activity as well as all similar activities. Granted the 'reasoned feel' you mentioned appears difficult to convey to others. However I think it is possible.
I am really convinced now that so much of what people do, re decisions, is much less rational than the Cartesian tradition claimed. I was captured by that thought and have tried to get out of that perspective for some time now. There seem to be a few key features or characteristics which, while I obviously don't know, should be explicable to others. Actually 'taught' or 'conveyed' in understandable terms such that others could 'learn' but that is a bad term. How about 'mentally' appropriate that kind of cognitive process for their 'own,' and act on that basis. A few sources, various kinds of evidence ... anecdotes, reason, study, first hand accounts, come to mind such that one could put together a good intelligible explication, e.g. a couple of chapters in a book, with examples from different fields with the focus on trading. An apprenticeship may be one of the better ways to accomplish this but that is terribly impractical for so many human endeavors these days.
Never been to the Far East; can understand people's fascination with it. Great pottery made in many countries there, especially China and Japan.
I can understand if much of the above struck many readers (hopefully not all!) as unintelligible, pointless or whatever. Please humor me. I apologize for taking up the space but thought it was worth the effort.
David |
