In order to give myself a superior education so that I can achieve my high goals, I supplement my standard curriculum with extra reading and other activities, such as researching, and looking up words from this material that I don’t know. I decided to utilize this technique as a consequence of extra reading I had done in two courses I had taken. These courses were Value Investing at Hunter College and as a matriculated student where I now go to college, a junior course: Introduction to Intelligence.
After I completed the finance course, I bought and read a book on the professor’s recommendation, “One Up on Wall Street”, and felt coupled with the course I had gained a keen insight into business and finance. In the intelligence/spy course I bought a book called “The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Final Showdown with the KGB”, and it helped me excel in the course.
Today by reading material gleaned from the Internet on my Google Nexus Tablet on a daily basis, I have a basic, but real understanding of the technique of a legendary value investor named Warren Buffet. Simply put, he employs something known in investors circle as Alpha, the ability to beat a market’s benchmark equity index by a significantly large amount over a long time. There’s actually a lot more to Alpha than that however; it also includes understanding the intrinsic value of a company, and reading tons of finance material daily, perhaps so that you have an ideal, fundamental knowledge of finance on a comprehensive basis. He is also a very forthright person who tries to promote a public understanding of how finance and business really work. As such, perhaps he is a business crony in a good way, garnering legal insider information based on his finance/charm acumen. I feel this kind of knowledge could be instrumental in refining my Bachelor’s Degree in business administration to the point where I might turn into some kind of legendary investor.
I was invited to a conference at Google’s New York City headquarters last year on March 25. The topic of the meet was cyber security. Needless to say, after the four speakers spoke and there was a request from the audience for questions, I asked if they thought the US should have a more offensive posture in the cyber spy business, something akin to an American version of the Chinese Titan Rain cyber offensive. Soon after this meet, the US pretty much did this, giving me a feeling that I was involved on the cutting edge of US intelligence, which affords me a larger world view whereby I may effectively be able to join the humanitarian-capitalist global movement, like at Google.
I have been reading information this way off and on, but not as intensively and comprehensively as now. I believe that I have a good chance of attaining a life on the cutting edge, perhaps even becoming a legendary humanitarian-capitalist such as Warren Buffet or one of the founders of Google. After all if you are lucky and/or smart enough dreams really do come true!
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