Howard Roark

 

Even after a lot of thinking, still I cannot come up with a suitable adjective or a phrase to describe Howard Roark. May be its because of the man’s unimaginable character or the insane life given to Roark by Ayn Rand. So, I just left it to say Howard Roark, only later to realize that Roark himself is an adjective, the synonym for freedom, for independence, for lateral thinking, for the only star in the sky and for a character not reachable by anyone’s wildest imaginations.

More or less, I always feel that Roark is one of the best characters ever to be penned, may be he is The Best. Rand breaks all the shackles in portraying Roark’s Character as a ruthless, yet sensitive human being devoted to his passion, Architecture. Such a devotion – unimaginable, can never be accepted by the world, not even now.

Some of the memorable words by Roark

• Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the people! – love thy passion, not people.
• The question is not ‘who is going to let me?’ but its ‘who is going to stop me’ – confidence above every thing.
• I don’t build in order to have clients, I have clients in order to build – damn he gives to money and fame.

The relationship he carries out with Dominique Francon (doubt if it can ever be called as a relationship), unique in his own way, the Roark’s way – live for what you love, never fear a soul. is the best ever depicted relationship in any novel. No proposals, no discussions, no anticipations, no expectations – together when they wanted to be, distanced when they have to be. Not even the people in those days can even think about, but Rand chose the darker possible way, yet throwing light on the character’s personification. The boldness portrayed by Dominique, which no man but Roark only can accept or understand, blend into her and together they live a life that haven’t been dreamt of by any other popular figures in the novel or to be precise – no other individual in the living world. Above all, Rand is successful in portraying the relation in a darker manner, yet looking something divine, above all in the world and only for the free minds who understand Roark. There may be people who hate Roark as himself, but not the personification of Roark by Ayn Rand.

All said, Roark is still the best and yet the ideal man for many.

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Music: What can it do to you.. !!

Music.. the language that can be understood by anybody in this world. Music has been a part and parcel of my daily routine from so long that I cannot start or end my day without it… less talking about spending my day.

Everyone interpret music in their own way.. and me.. in my own.. As hrithik says in Kites movie,

“Love and Music have no language”

As for me, music heals my wounds. It drives me into some other world.. probably a weird world, where I can be what I want to be and what I cannot be here. Thoughts wander in a limitless fashion letting you to do what you wanted to do.. what you dreamt to do.. sometimes reminds me of the good times I had.. sometimes helps me to come out of past..

As Reba McEntire said, “For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.” ..

Music has a power to do anything…bottom line is that you gotta get connected to it. Every body connects to certain type and genre of music at some point of time.. It doesn’t have to be permanent. The preferences and connections do change with time, situation, surroundings.. what else.. everything that haunts u.

One track that suits my taste is this one..

Infected Mushroom–Suliman .. listen to it with eyes closed.. u ll love it..

cheers.. !!!

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A Trader’s Guide : How and why you should trade..

Well.. Its been long ago I ve written something over here. These days, am being pretty busy doing things which are needed most. As I promised in my last post, you will see a series on trading and know the what is what of stock market.

Any user with a laptop can easily figure out how to make an order.. so no diggings into that.

Only 20% of the people make money in the market. The other 80% join the market to give money to those 20%. Why do most of the people fail.. ??

1. No knowledge on how the market works.

2. No planning,

3. No discipline.

If you don’t have any one of the qualities above, do not risk ur money. That’s what ppl say out there. So, getting to know the ways of trading initially is more important than knowing how to trade.

There are basically 3 types of trading methodologies that we work on..

1. Day trading.

2. Swing trading.

3. long term investing.

Each method differs from other in terms of risk, returns, capital and many other factors. As a beginner, we usually trend to work on day trading and swing. Since am not a big fan of long term investing, where you invest a lot and sit quiet for 4 or 5 years,  I stress on swing trading for a while, know about it and in turn let u too know about it.

Well.. swing trading is nothing but trading for a very short period of time.. lets say 2 to 4 days. When analysts talk about stocks and trades, they talk about all the fundamentals of the company.. analysis of the balance sheet, ratios.. a lot .. but none of them is needed for you if you are a swing trader. As a swing trader,

- you don’t care about the fundamentals of a company.

- you don’t care about the products they sell.

- you don’t even pay attention to what the company is going to do next year.

This kind of trading is based on only the law of supply and demand. Demand increases, you get to supply. Supply increases, you gotta demand from the market. that’s it. As said earlier, since you are trading based on the market, not on the fundamentals, risk factor is high, so is the return on your capital.

Check back tomorrow to learn more. cheers…. !!!

Today’s Book I suggest :

Timing the Market – Curtis Arnold

 

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