The Wisdom of Others

a piece of news

http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2008/09/24/t-boone-pickens-loses-1-billion-on-wrong-oil-bet/

so the next time I hear someone telling me what these big names did, or thought, or said, I should remember that it might be that rare occasion of them being wrong, assuming that they never speak out of self-serving interests, of course

One who solely relies of wisdom of Dickens 'n Chickens 'n Hartmans 'n Fartmans is eventually doomed to be had for the plucking, and the stench

do not get me wrong, one should actively engage in taking opinions of others under advisement, but I should learn the tools, and do my own thinking, so mush so that the mistakes I make become all mine and no one else's