Re: August 31
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Aug 30, 2014 01:09PM
Multi-Billion Dollar Agreement Signed With Oman
HM has finally gotten me to put my amateur psychiatrist hat on.It’s just too interesting to resist.He (she?) obviously is long in the stock and has stubbornly refused to bail despite many entreaties.Therefore he is like the rest of us (the herd): he believes that there is an acceptable risk and possible reward at the end of this trail.However, unlike the rest of us,he has a childlike and pathological (in an adult) inability to deal with the possibility of failure.He insulates himself from this possible disappointment by continual rants on the utter stupidity of this investment, given the string of delays.Therefore if the investment fails, he will be able to say “I told you so” and therefore not (somehow) be personally disappointed at his own loss.As if his foretelling of the doom somehow covers up his own stupidity in sticking with it.Ironically, deep down, he doesn’t really think it’s stupid to stick with it, because actions speak louder than words.Totally irrational behavior.