Trader’s adroitness

Chapter VIII T rader’ s adroitness Business affairs must come easy to the trader. The facility with which he is to conduct his business is necessarily a result of a stable and keen mind. If one is writing, speaking or working on something with difficulty, he is evidently not skilled at it. Adroitness is a result of a keen mind and work experience due to which work is done almost effortlessly. There are nevertheless those who make a bigger deal out of a hundred gold coin investments than those who invest ten times as much. Some write with such facility that it seems that their pen is oozing the letters in an uncanny manner, while others find the mere issuing of a bill of exchange to be a laborious task. It all depends on the mind and on how easily it acquires knowledge. Aristotle who says that any task done regularly and habitually is never difficult provides thus a philosophical explanation. Additionally, being talented for a certain job is certainly a benefit. Some are fortunate to have it, and so whatever they do appears as very neat and orderly. Those who lack the talent should do what it takes to develop it.