Adam Robinson

23 statements across 4 episodes · 8 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 11, 2018 by Adam Robinson · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Dec 11, 2018 negative
Insight
Robinson: Technical analysis suffers from severe confirmation bias across limitless indicator parameters
“The problem with technical analysis is one of confirmation bias. The technical analyst has literally hundreds of technical indicators, and each indicator has literally limitless parameter settings.”
Adam Robinson Dec 11, 2018 ▶ 50:41 #47 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 1)
Dec 11, 2018 positive
Insight
Robinson: When stuck, start experimenting in the exact opposite direction
“All you need to do is just change what you're doing. Not more of it. Not more of the same. Do something different. And a good first step is, is in the opposite direction. Right? If you don't know how to change what you're doing, start off in the opposite direc…”
Adam Robinson Dec 11, 2018 ▶ 1:54:27 #47 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 1)
Dec 11, 2018 positive
Insight
Adam Robinson: Surprise Signals That One's Mental Model Is Flawed
“What surprise is telling you, Shane, is this. Your model of the world is incorrect, which is fantastic. It's a learning opportunity. That's what surprise is.”
Adam Robinson Dec 11, 2018 ▶ 39:29 #47 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 1)
Dec 11, 2018
Insight
Robinson: When Markets Defy Logic, the Prevailing Trend Continues
“When somebody says it doesn't make any sense that X keeps going lower, get in the trade. It's got a lot lower to go.”
Adam Robinson Dec 11, 2018 ▶ 42:18 #47 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 1)
Dec 11, 2018
Insight
Robinson: Parabolic moves occur more often during market declines than rises
“Parabolic moves, you see, you don't see them often in markets. You see them more often on the decline than on the rise.”
Adam Robinson Dec 11, 2018 ▶ 1:05:36 #47 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 1)
Dec 11, 2018 bullish
Insight
Robinson: Prolonged sideways consolidation transfers assets from weak hands to strong hands
“So the third way prices change is a protracted period of nothing going on. In other words, a stock just moving sideways for months or years. And I'm using air quotes, nothing going on, because something really strong is going on, something really powerful. And…”
Adam Robinson Dec 11, 2018 ▶ 1:06:03 #47 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 1)
Dec 26, 2018 positive
Insight
Robinson: Translate Notes into Your Own Words Rather Than Rereading Them
“When you take notes in school, they're probably verbatim just because you've got to keep up with the teacher, right? But then translate those notes into your own words, because that's what you're going to have to do on the test. Don't reread your notes. Transl…”
Adam Robinson Dec 26, 2018 ▶ 54:42 #48 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 2)
Dec 26, 2018 positive
Opinion
Robinson: Gen Z is more globally homogeneous and label-free than prior generations
“Young people, the younger generation, under 20, Gen Z, the youngest generation, is free from many of the labels that everyone over the age of 25, like male versus female, or Republican versus Democrat, or American versus non-American that bedevil political and…”
Adam Robinson Dec 26, 2018 ▶ 1:07:07 #48 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 2)
Dec 26, 2018
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Teachers Grade Identical Essays a Quarter-Point Higher With Female Names
“The number one positive factor on on your, on the essay was a female name at the top of the paper. It was worth an extra quarter of a grade. A equals four point O, B equals three point O, C equals three point O. It was worth a quarter of a grade. It was worth …”
Adam Robinson Dec 26, 2018 ▶ 3:04 #48 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 2)
Dec 26, 2018
Insight
Robinson: All mnemonics reduce to pictures, patterns, stories, or rhymes
“Create a picture, a pattern, a story, or a rhyme out of it. All mnemonics come back to picture, pattern, story, or rhyme, but they don't tell us that.”
Adam Robinson Dec 26, 2018 ▶ 46:16 #48 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 2)
Dec 26, 2018
Disclosure
Robinson Predicts Global Markets Using Copper-to-Gold and Bond Ratios
“Which is why, by the way, in my investment analysis, when I look at global markets, I reduce all global markets down to a handful of variables, like copper versus gold, or investment grade bonds versus, versus corporate bonds, right? LQD, IEF, that ratio I tol…”
Adam Robinson Dec 26, 2018 ▶ 37:56 #48 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 2)
Dec 26, 2018 positive
Insight
Robinson: Attempt Chapter Questions Before Reading to Prime Problem-Solving
“Try the sample questions at the end of the chapter before you read the chapter. Now, because what that does is it primes you. Now, now all of a sudden, whoa, how would I, there's no way I can answer those questions. Let's, now you're primed as you read the cha…”
Adam Robinson Dec 26, 2018 ▶ 52:49 #48 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 2)
Dec 26, 2018 positive
Insight
Robinson: The key to learning is breaking skills down and rehearsing them
“The key to learning any skill, really, if there's anything I said today, like, that was super important, the key to learning any skill, rehearse it. Break it down into sub-skills, and the rehearse Each of those skills.”
Adam Robinson Dec 26, 2018 ▶ 50:31 #48 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 2)
Dec 26, 2018 negative
Opinion
Robinson: Flashcards and rereading notes are totally ineffective for learning
“We, you know, we create flashcards, which are totally ineffective and we keep rereading our notes.”
Adam Robinson Dec 26, 2018 ▶ 46:27 #48 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 2)
Jun 13, 2023
Insight
Parrish: Top decision-makers operate from foundational strength to compound advantages
“The best decision makers in the world almost always operate from a position of strength. And that sort of strikes me because when you operate from a solid position or foundation, Nearly every move you make is good. It's all accumulative. Whereas when you opera…”
Shane Parrish Jun 13, 2023 ▶ 8:02 Adam Robinson: Positioning Yourself For Success
Jun 13, 2023
Insight
Robinson: All advice and wisdom are fundamentally warnings
“And it's key, especially for you, Shane, is that all advice is a warning. All wisdom is a warning.”
Adam Robinson Jun 13, 2023 ▶ 46:44 Adam Robinson: Positioning Yourself For Success
Jun 13, 2023
Insight
Robinson treats minor intuitive anomalies as major warnings and exits immediately
“Whenever things are a little strange, they're very strange. If something is, seems a little bit off, it's really off, and I don't wait to figure out, to assess the situation. I remove myself from it immediately.”
Adam Robinson Jun 13, 2023 ▶ 10:04 Adam Robinson: Positioning Yourself For Success
Jun 13, 2023 positive
Opinion
Adam Robinson claims he knows more about financial markets than anyone living
“I, Adam, know more about financial markets than any other living person.”
Adam Robinson Jun 13, 2023 ▶ 29:52 Adam Robinson: Positioning Yourself For Success
Jun 13, 2023
Insight
Robinson: Stupidity is overlooking or dismissing conspicuously crucial information
“So I define stupidity as overlooking or dismissing conspicuously crucial information, and Tim was dismissing it.”
Adam Robinson Jun 13, 2023 ▶ 45:27 Adam Robinson: Positioning Yourself For Success
Jun 13, 2023 neutral
Insight
Adam Robinson: Capital preservation is critical because investing mistakes permanently deplete learning capital
“In a chess game, if I lose it, the next round, tomorrow, I'm the same chess player. But investing, if I've lost money today, I have less money tomorrow to invest with. And the problem with a lot of people in investing is that they're, to become a decent invest…”
Adam Robinson Jun 13, 2023 ▶ 18:52 Adam Robinson: Positioning Yourself For Success
Jun 13, 2023
Disclosure
Robinson processes information and calculates solutions through physical sensations
“But I'm actually not, I'm in my body most of the time, and I process information in my body, even when I'm reading, even when I'm thinking, even when I'm calculating. I kind of feel my way to answers, and I'm able to reason, I mean that literally, reason with …”
Adam Robinson Jun 13, 2023 ▶ 2:16 Adam Robinson: Positioning Yourself For Success
Nov 7, 2023
Insight
Robinson: Assets continue falling when investors claim drops make no sense
“When somebody says it doesn't make any sense that X keeps going lower, Get in the trade. It's got a lot lower to go.”
Adam Robinson Nov 7, 2023 ▶ 36:10 TKP Insights: Learning and Thinking
Nov 7, 2023
Insight
Robinson: Surprise reveals an incorrect mental model and aids learning
“Surprise is always, what surprise is telling you, Shane, is this, your model of the world is incorrect. Which is fantastic. It's a learning opportunity. That's what surprise is.”
Adam Robinson Nov 7, 2023 ▶ 33:21 TKP Insights: Learning and Thinking
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