Trading skill requires practice like basketball; reading books won't make you profitable without execution.

I can show you a video on how to like take a free throw in basketball until you're in the gym, shooting the ball yourself. Nothing I say really matters. You know what I mean? Right. Right. So I always found like people always ask what book should I read? What, you know, podcast should I listen to this one? Obviously. But, you know, to get that holy grail, that thing that's going to get me over the edge and I'm like, you know, I can show you my entire strategy in an afternoon. That's not going to make you a profitable trader. The only way you're going to do it is by getting into the arena, getting into the game and taking the shots, taking the at bats, shooting 10,000 free throws in the gym. So when it's game time, and there's money on the line and the crowd is in the arena, you it's your automatic. You know what you're doing. And so how much would you say of what you do was, you know, learn from other people versus the stuff that you figured out by basically getting in there and losing a bunch of money? I'd say, I'd say probably like a 20 80 split between learning from other people being 20 and then 80% just getting my shit rocked all the time. As crazy as that sounds, there's not that many novel ideas when it comes to trading. There's not that many different strategies. At the end of the day, it is buying and selling. And generally speaking, if you've tried different