I recently wrote an article where I mentioned the economic fact that nothing in the perceptual world has in itself any value whatsoever. The only reason anything in your world has value is because you believe it so AND so does at least one other person. Collective agreement is the only reason anything in our world has value.

On a deeper level you could say that the only reason our perceptual world even exists is because all of our minds agree it is so. Think about this for a moment. When you were born a group of other minds constantly persuaded you to think in a consistent manner so that in gradual agreement your mind assigned a symbol to every object you were shown how to perceive.

Your entire language, family history, and socialization was something continually taught to you in one way or another over the formative years of your life. If you had been born into a different family or even a different species like dogs (I am a dog lover) the way you assemble the world in your mind and thus your very perception of everything would be entirely different.

This impacts you as a stock investor. In my recent article