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Strategies & Market Trends : ajtj's Post-Lobotomy Market Charts and Thoughts
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I was grade 4 or 5 and we had this big steep hill up on the street with little outside traffic. I got it in my head to see how fast I can go if I bike to the top and pedal down as fast I as I can. Within two minutes the bike was going faster than I could pedal and I was less than a quarter of the way down.

The good thing was that the road was nicely tapered and after a parabolic drop it would come to a relatively smooth asymptotic flat area. That was a fair size runway which I had been counting on. The bad thing was that at the end of that runway stood a T-junction and a hospital. Worse, by the time the smooth flat part would start the local traffic would end and there could be cars going to the hospital.

I was going way faster than I had imagined and I realized that if I break hard they will have to scrape me off the road. I tried to slow down as carefully as I could and prayed that any incoming cars would have more control than I did. I eventually the road came to an end and I was still going too fast to make a turn. So took off my front wheel as I got close to the hospital wall and my bike just climbed the wall and the smoothly reversed back down.

It was a bragworthy feat, but I was too scared to tell anyone and certainly did not want the other kids to dare me to do it again. So I never said it to anyone.

Just one of the many many (and many more) times that I got myself into situations that I'd later wondered why.

Well into my late 20s and early 30s my mom would still not sleep when I'd go on one of my adventures and trips.

But on the plus side, having survived such craziness since a young age, by the time I was in my 20s I had developed a healthy level of self confidence that gave me comfort believing that no matter how bad things get, I will find a way out and survive...then came wisdom.
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