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Hominine - the novel: by Lewis Evans

2010-08-11T03:22:00.000-07:00

Hominine - the novel: by Lewis Evans

Check out this timely and exciting new book at http://www.hominine.info, and on Facebook!

2009-02-12T08:22:00.001-08:00

Listen to Olga on blogtalkradio: http://ping.fm/AYA5H

2009-02-12T02:55:00.001-08:00

Creativity can save the world? Three very interesting videos: http://ping.fm/kDh3r

2009-02-11T03:51:00.001-08:00

Valentines Day. Change your pattern. Go for something better: http://ping.fm/TCC9y

2009-02-11T03:50:00.001-08:00

Still reactive to consequences of relationships instead of discovering your power to have the best? http://ping.fm/TCC9y

2009-02-09T10:25:00.001-08:00

Very thankful to all the people who made such nice comments on my video on Facebook. Here's the Google one: http://ping.fm/kpuvX

2009-02-09T08:29:00.001-08:00

Forex: Predicting the Non-farm Payroll - http://ping.fm/5lhrs

2009-01-21T01:34:00.001-08:00

Taking a week's break - checking in now and then. Topping up my vitamin D...

2009-01-20T05:54:00.001-08:00

Don't be surprised if I don't reply for a while. I'll probably be watching TV...

2009-01-20T00:57:00.001-08:00

Celebrating? Is the power in Obama, or in you, me, or all of us? http://ping.fm/kDh3r

2009-01-19T04:31:00.001-08:00

It's all about relationships - video http://ping.fm/dpHo6

2009-01-13T14:44:00.001-08:00

Free knock-your-socks-off Valentine's teleseminars with relationship coach Olga Sheean http://ping.fm/4AxrS

2009-01-09T11:07:00.001-08:00

Forex: for LEFT Brain Trading videos etc., follow @leftbraintrader. I'm using
2lewisevans777 for other things now

2009-01-08T10:19:00.001-08:00

How can we fix the dreadful situation in Gaza and the Middle East? http://ping.fm/NiCbp

2009-01-08T01:32:00.001-08:00

New social network for exploring/discussing/discovering about relationships of all kinds: http://ping.fm/kDh3r

2009-01-07T04:35:00.001-08:00

lewisevans777 FOREX: I'm moving my LEFT Brain Trading tweets to @leftbraintrader for the new year. If you do Forex, follow me there!

2009-01-05T08:00:00.001-08:00

YOUMEUS - it's all about relationships: new social network http://ping.fm/eyx92

2009-01-03T13:00:00.001-08:00

I'm working on the new social network that Olga and I are putting together. Ready soon....

2009-01-02T02:11:00.001-08:00

YYes, I agree with Thomas Power, this is nice! http://ping.fm/gmJdj

2008-12-31T05:20:00.001-08:00

What are you planning for 2009!? http://ping.fm/vK4G0

2008-12-29T05:28:00.001-08:00

Looking for someone to advise on a book/film package. How to structure, brand, set up pitch and manage...

2008-12-24T02:34:00.001-08:00

I just wanted to wish everyone, especially my 'Spare a Click' friends on FB, a very Happy Christmas. Looking forward to 2009!

2008-12-20T08:57:00.001-08:00

Do you get fed up with webjunk as well? http://ping.fm/KlNq6

2008-12-19T07:16:00.001-08:00

Forex education: trade what you absolutely know - new video - http://ping.fm/GyrfI

2008-12-17T10:37:00.001-08:00

Thanks to the fresh avalanche of people who seem to have just discovered my art website, and the lovely comments! www.lewisevans.net

2008-12-16T01:51:00.001-08:00

FOREX: don't forget the live session at 10am PST, 6pm GMT. Register free at http://ping.fm/1XMdc

2008-12-15T11:14:00.001-08:00

Forex: a longer term trade over 400 pips identified on 8 December ; http://ping.fm/RMWhI

2008-12-13T03:35:00.001-08:00

Forex: join me on the TP Tuesday live event on the 16th, 10.00am PST. Register free: http://ping.fm/1XMdc

2008-12-09T15:02:00.001-08:00

Forex: Elliott Waves and the Ab Fib Framework - http://ping.fm/Pw3F4

2008-12-07T12:57:00.001-08:00

Self-mastery, love and relationships - discover the real answers. Olga Sheean explains: http://ping.fm/Y3m8A

2008-12-05T07:31:00.001-08:00

Forex: Non-farm payroll: not such a mystery - GBP 05 Dec 08 - http://ping.fm/SSQYY

2008-12-05T01:08:00.001-08:00

Forex: new video, 'Mindset: Playing Safe' http://ping.fm/W8ZCt

2008-12-01T08:06:00.001-08:00

Forex: Staying clear and present on today's GBP/USD move, the first few hours - http://ping.fm/QEzug

2008-11-27T08:39:00.000-08:00

Forex: new video - making use of barriers and retracements using the Ab Fib Framework. Another in the new series on http://ping.fm/grF5m

2008-11-25T07:37:00.001-08:00

Forex GBP today - anyone for a quicky? http://ping.fm/tpASO

2008-11-24T06:21:00.001-08:00

Forex: today's Cable move - as predicted on Saturday... http://ping.fm/LbX7p

2008-11-23T01:26:00.001-08:00

Forex: looking for traders in Dublin who may like to get together with us. http://ping.fm/Kup3H

2008-11-20T09:55:00.001-08:00

New LBT Forex YouTube channel: find out more about the Ab Fib Framework! http://ping.fm/grF5m

2008-11-05T15:01:00.001-08:00

LBT – the quiet Forex revolution http://ping.fm/c7aDq

2008-11-01T09:45:00.001-07:00

New Forex info coming very soon - re-built LBT website for next week

2008-10-31T10:11:00.001-07:00

Am I the only one who has no clue as to what this Halloween thing is about?

2008-10-28T05:47:00.001-07:00

Half way through the final video production for Olga's new e-course on relationships, dating, love and everything else. http://ping.fm/7XISs

2008-10-28T05:46:00.001-07:00

Books, e-books and courses on the real secret behind loving relationships. http://ping.fm/7XISs

2008-10-28T05:44:00.001-07:00

Just how fit are you for a loving relationship!? http://ping.fm/Ndc7b

2008-10-27T00:51:00.001-07:00

figuring out how to produce a new video....

2008-10-26T12:01:00.001-07:00

did a pastel today of a nude. Happy with it!

2008-10-26T12:00:00.001-07:00

...the harder it is to get started!

2008-10-26T11:58:00.001-07:00

thought for my day: the longer I avoid engaging in creative activity because it can be challenging and by its very nature I don't know how it will turn out, the more difficult it is to start. So, just get on with it, Lewis!

2008-10-25T07:25:00.001-07:00

watching the olive harvest on the farm where we are staying near Fiesole....

2008-10-15T08:44:00.001-07:00

drawing, drawing, drawing....

2008-10-14T10:22:00.001-07:00

You can get your Forex trading under control and profitable: http://ping.fm/c3Ru8

2008-10-13T23:49:00.001-07:00

For all you sun worshippers out there - this is pretty incredible! http://ping.fm/u6Q2k

2008-10-13T14:11:00.001-07:00

deciding it's really time to get down to the art and bring out the real me!

2008-10-10T05:49:00.001-07:00

A great offer for Forex traders who really wanto to find out how it all works - http://ping.fm/EmFJI

2008-10-06T02:00:00.001-07:00

Having a great time relaxing in Monte Argentario. The most beautiful part of Italy we have been in so far!

2008-09-28T00:06:00.001-07:00

enjoying a fun way to sell art http://ping.fm/wFVEz

2008-09-26T23:29:00.001-07:00

Charities, art and business - a win-win idea that could be developed - http://ping.fm/rbfh9

2008-09-26T07:45:00.001-07:00

I always wanted to make my art accessible to more people - here's a great new idea: http://ping.fm/wFVEz

2008-09-25T07:36:00.001-07:00

I'm looking for ways to get a loads more ebook sales. Any ideas out there?

2008-09-24T05:14:00.001-07:00

Edit
Lewis is getting down to serious business .... actually, no, what's the point of that!? Let's get down to FUN business!

2008-09-23T11:29:00.001-07:00

For anyone who missed the webcast, the TPF address for the LBT Forex class is http://ping.fm/p5OhG

2008-09-15T02:50:00.001-07:00

Looking forward to doing the Forex webcast with Trading Post next week. www.leftbraintrading.com

2008-09-15T02:49:00.001-07:00

Looking forward to doing the Forex webcast with trading Post next week!

2008-09-13T01:14:00.001-07:00

Just setting up Ping.fm. Looks great! Loads of little logos to add... Which are the important ones to be on, do you think?

2008-09-12T05:56:00.001-07:00

Still looking for the ideal rental on the Tuscan coast just south of Livorno, with internet!

2008-09-10T23:43:00.001-07:00

www.insideoutmedia.net

Worth a read? Who says so?

2008-08-15T03:22:00.000-07:00

It’s not what you say, it’s not even the way that you say it; it’s who else said it first that matters. Apparently.

I had a conversation with someone on Facebook recently; it went something like this.

The message to me, from someone I didn’t know, said words to the effect of “Try this trading gizmo and you’ll make loads of money!”

Having seen a tad too much of this type of thing in my life, I expressed the fact that I really wasn’t interested because I had been here many times before, it wasn’t for me, and I didn’t believe that it would work for me.

“For those of us who know a little about trading, and who have been around the houses a bit, and seen schemes like this come and go, it all looks a bit like déja-vu and gives me a feeling of 'oh no, not another one...'. When traders realise that it is so much better to empower themselves rather than try to defer responsibility of their success elsewhere, they are not only richer in the bank, but also wealthier in their life”.

Maybe I was being a bit high-minded, maybe I was cutting him off at the knees and doing the same back to him, and maybe I could have introduced my thoughts a bit more softly. Too late for second-guessing and eloquent editing – I’d pressed ‘send’. The reply came back with a thud:

“When you write a book endorsed by executives from three of the largest forex brokers in the industry and are asked to write Op-Eds for the Financial Times newspaper in London and have a successful record in daily forex markets, comments like yours are discounted very readily. Do yourself a favor and simply be big enough to listen to opinions you disagree with without negative comments.”

In other words, even though the writer knew nothing about me, the fact that others had endorsed this product was meant to show that it was rock solid and that I was an idiot for saying otherwise – just like people said of banks and institutions like Barings, Societé Générale etc.

Fine. He obviously had a strong belief in what he was doing, and he was obviously convinced, for now anyway, that by following his course he was heading for his own salvation. But I wasn’t sure why he was moved to invest so much passion in defending his beliefs and the product’s endorsers and admirers, as opposed to enlightening me more about the gizmo itself.

So I said: “Thanks for trying, but I'm still not impressed. All the same, I'm very happy to listen to opinions I disagree with and am always open to learning. Are you? I guess the first thing is not to spam people with things you are excited about before you have checked that they are wanted.

It's interesting that your seemingly angry reply to what I hoped was a helpful reply to your question kind of proves my point, if you think about it calmly!

Happy trading!”

Maybe I was pushing my luck with this guy, but the more fun I had with the conversation, the more frenetic he became with each subsequent exchange, ending up calling me all sorts of names that I won’t share with you here, and cutting me off from communication.

Why did all this happen? Simply because I didn’t buy into something that he had bought into, based on the credentials of others.

Have you noticed how people bolster their own credibility by quoting ‘distinguished sources’ rather than expressing their own opinions? Are we all so insecure about what we think, or at least about the value of what we think, that we feel we have to do this? Have we lost the ability to evaluate something on the basis of a clear description and explanation?

Personally I like to learn by direct experience. I am choosy abut the books that I read as I am not generally looking for the guidance of others into their beliefs and knowledge, rather than trying to develop my own. After all, I guess the people who are quoted had to do that for themselves, and they are the ones people listen to. So, why not me? I am nobody, you may say. I haven’t gone to this university or that, or written for twenty years on one particular narrow avenue of knowledge, so my opinion is not as important as those who have.

Well, if that is the case, where and when do we recognize any value in an original idea? Those who have reached the lofty heights of recognition for their work probably have the same thoughts about their subject when they become famous as when they started out. The ideas don’t change, but the environment around them does. So what started out as novel, idiotic, controversial, fringe or quirky eventually found its way to respect and admiration through the tortuous process of building a consensus.

Most people prefer to follow than lead. It’s safer, and there are more friends in a following. Look at religion, politics, your local football team. The originators – the creative beacons – of whatever you are following are the people who stood outside this mentality. If you always hope to achieve notoriety on the coat-tails of such people, you will never allow your creativity to fly. You’ll be popular, probably, with those who agree with all those whom you refer to and defer to in your borrowed knowledge and expertise, but there will be an emptiness in it, surely, knowing that you haven’t truly realized your own potential.

As they say, it takes great courage to express one single creative thought, because when you do, you are in a minority of one.