TWO PRACTICAL QUESTIONS FOR EVERYDAY USE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Many meaningless statements may be reduced to rubble by asking “Is that so?” and “How do you know that?”

In our culture it is common for our analytical and objective minds to be frozen by educations and institutions that believe they owe their survival to the maintenance of the status quo. Men and women interested in success in life as well as success in the markets can employ simple analytical procedures to test whether prevailing truth (opinion) or scientific and social orthodoxy is factual (accurate). Two simple questions alone can illuminate many dark corners of discourse: to the statement, “This is a bear market,” you can respond, “Is that so?” and “How do you know that?” The answers you give yourself or others give you can be eye-opening if examined with an objective mind. The use of such questions and procedures will lead to more objective thinking.