Timing - Good Or Bad, Art Or Science?
The Merriam - Webster dictionary defines timing as: 1.
Placement or occurrence in time.
(The timing of the sale couldn't have been better) The ability to select the precise moment for doing something for optimum effect.
(A boxer with impeccable timing) 2.
Observation and recording (as by a stop watch) of the elapsed time of an act, action or process.
Sometimes the effect is good and at other times it is bad.
Led Zeppelin probably had it right in their song, "Good Times, Bad Times, you know I had my share.
" Some people however seem to have a larger share of good times based on statements we have all heard: "That person has perfect timing," or "Everything he touches turns to gold," or the often used, "He just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
" Those statements naturally all refer to good timing.
But there are also many bad timing statements like: "It just wasn't his time," or "He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time," or "Maybe next time" or "His timing was off.
" I am sure we can all recall hearing or reading about some preposterous scheme that bilked investors out of all of their investment.
To those that invested, the ploy generally was described as a guaranteed way to make money.
The investment returns had never been anything but outstanding.
By investing your money in such a highly touted con you would find yourself in the right place at the right time.
The conversation about this fraud seemed to imply that the results would be an example of having the 'Midas Touch'.
Investors flock to such schemes and tell friends and associates about their, 'Good Timing'.
Certainly we all know that anything to good to be true probably is but for some strange reason it sometimes takes several years before the truth about, 'get-rich', scams is discovered.
Invariably, with these schemes and unknown to the investors, the entire program is a masquerade of investing.
Everything about the investing program was a scham.
The perpetrators of these frauds take the money invested with them and use it to support their lavish life style.
Gullibility is often a trait of a of investors and when it comes to investing and in addition, greed seems to become proportinate to that gullibility.
Failure to ask enough questions when investing one's life savings is a serious problem and investors love to chase yield.
The results, millions of dollars are lost by investors every year.
I began wondering if 'Timing' which can be good or bad was an art or a science.
Various investment schemes seemed to have been operating as if it where both an art and a science.
As I researched this topic, I found there are people with all kinds of interesting but unusual views on this subject.
The book written by Johanna Paungger, 'The Art of Timing', emphasizes the benefit of rhythms of the moon having a profound effect on life on earth and resultant benefits of timing activities.
Who knows, possibly many investment scheme are all due to the moon being rhythmically in the perpetrator's favor and affords them perfect timing for scamming investors out of their hard earned dollars.
Lester C.
Walker, Jr.
of the University of Georgia states, 'The terms art and science are well known, much used, less well understood.
Contrary to popular belief, authoritative definitions of the two are not mutually exclusive although such definitions indicate that art has primary associations of skill, manipulation, and practice, while science is more often considered as related to systematic organization and the determination of immediate and specific frames of reference.
Art seems more inductive and science more deductive; art appears more often closely allied to matters of emotion and spirit while science has implications of systematic and logical reasoning.
' Regardless, whether 'TIMING' is an art or science, good or bad, it is still a word that has many contexts in which it is used.
If you Google the word there are numerous usages for the word.
If we stay with the investing scenario, there are so many schemes perpetrated by so many individuals, and if we use the examples as stated by Lester C.
Walker, maybe a con-artist's timing is an art while stealing so much money but becomes a science after they are caught, convicted and begin serving time in prison.
I don't know that it matters whether we see 'TIMING' as an Art or a Science, because it seems to me that we put the noun 'TIMING' into so many different situations to describe an outcome after the fact? It seems evident that the con-artists has excellent artful timing for many years while stealing other's money but with apprehension and conviction will now have plenty of time to develop a more scientific approach to investing.
Placement or occurrence in time.
(The timing of the sale couldn't have been better) The ability to select the precise moment for doing something for optimum effect.
(A boxer with impeccable timing) 2.
Observation and recording (as by a stop watch) of the elapsed time of an act, action or process.
Sometimes the effect is good and at other times it is bad.
Led Zeppelin probably had it right in their song, "Good Times, Bad Times, you know I had my share.
" Some people however seem to have a larger share of good times based on statements we have all heard: "That person has perfect timing," or "Everything he touches turns to gold," or the often used, "He just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
" Those statements naturally all refer to good timing.
But there are also many bad timing statements like: "It just wasn't his time," or "He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time," or "Maybe next time" or "His timing was off.
" I am sure we can all recall hearing or reading about some preposterous scheme that bilked investors out of all of their investment.
To those that invested, the ploy generally was described as a guaranteed way to make money.
The investment returns had never been anything but outstanding.
By investing your money in such a highly touted con you would find yourself in the right place at the right time.
The conversation about this fraud seemed to imply that the results would be an example of having the 'Midas Touch'.
Investors flock to such schemes and tell friends and associates about their, 'Good Timing'.
Certainly we all know that anything to good to be true probably is but for some strange reason it sometimes takes several years before the truth about, 'get-rich', scams is discovered.
Invariably, with these schemes and unknown to the investors, the entire program is a masquerade of investing.
Everything about the investing program was a scham.
The perpetrators of these frauds take the money invested with them and use it to support their lavish life style.
Gullibility is often a trait of a of investors and when it comes to investing and in addition, greed seems to become proportinate to that gullibility.
Failure to ask enough questions when investing one's life savings is a serious problem and investors love to chase yield.
The results, millions of dollars are lost by investors every year.
I began wondering if 'Timing' which can be good or bad was an art or a science.
Various investment schemes seemed to have been operating as if it where both an art and a science.
As I researched this topic, I found there are people with all kinds of interesting but unusual views on this subject.
The book written by Johanna Paungger, 'The Art of Timing', emphasizes the benefit of rhythms of the moon having a profound effect on life on earth and resultant benefits of timing activities.
Who knows, possibly many investment scheme are all due to the moon being rhythmically in the perpetrator's favor and affords them perfect timing for scamming investors out of their hard earned dollars.
Lester C.
Walker, Jr.
of the University of Georgia states, 'The terms art and science are well known, much used, less well understood.
Contrary to popular belief, authoritative definitions of the two are not mutually exclusive although such definitions indicate that art has primary associations of skill, manipulation, and practice, while science is more often considered as related to systematic organization and the determination of immediate and specific frames of reference.
Art seems more inductive and science more deductive; art appears more often closely allied to matters of emotion and spirit while science has implications of systematic and logical reasoning.
' Regardless, whether 'TIMING' is an art or science, good or bad, it is still a word that has many contexts in which it is used.
If you Google the word there are numerous usages for the word.
If we stay with the investing scenario, there are so many schemes perpetrated by so many individuals, and if we use the examples as stated by Lester C.
Walker, maybe a con-artist's timing is an art while stealing so much money but becomes a science after they are caught, convicted and begin serving time in prison.
I don't know that it matters whether we see 'TIMING' as an Art or a Science, because it seems to me that we put the noun 'TIMING' into so many different situations to describe an outcome after the fact? It seems evident that the con-artists has excellent artful timing for many years while stealing other's money but with apprehension and conviction will now have plenty of time to develop a more scientific approach to investing.
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