We live in a here and now society. Where once we watched the evening news or read the newspaper the next morning to find results, have now been replaced with updates on the immediate with a notification the moment it happens. You don’t even have to seek it out any further. The information comes to you. Who scored and when, who won, who’s traded.
Not too many years ago I would take the day off on Trade Deadline Day, grab my Gino Reda coffee mug and be thoroughly entertained by the group providing thoughts, analysis, hypotheticals, and insider information that often came mere moments before the fax machine spit out the contracts.
In today’s environment, we seem to often have the cart ahead of the horse. We already know things like a trade is imminent, who is likely involved, and we often get impatient waiting for reality to catch up to our perceived knowledge. We as well receive advanced information that years back we would never have been privy to, thanks in part to the advent of technology. This can also sometimes lead to that same impatience, over to skepticism, often down to disappointment or ignorance if what we hear takes too long to arrive or simply never comes to fruition.
If we desire information on the immediate, often ahead of anything official, we have to accept that we weren’t truly meant to be in on that knowledge in the first place, thus the term ‘insider’ and thus why many remain anonymous or do not share a source. Sharing rumours as such is just that, and is meant to satisfy the here & now world to which we currently reside but comes with it many variables and are subject to change.
Not all leads turn into opportunities. Not all rumours turn to fact. This has always been the case and has never changed. What ‘has’ changed is where the general public’s knowledge enters in the process.
If you want to guess what you got for Christmas, it’s fun to snoop under the tree and shake some boxes. But if all you want to know is exactly what you’re getting, just wait until Dec 25th.
Have fun everyone, and be good to one another.
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