Using the Circle in (as) Business Strategy
Ilexa Yardley 27 December 2009
At the moment, we are ALL at a disadvantage, no matter what field, but, especially, in finance. The reason? We have yet to figure out the basis for reality.
Think about it, if the foundation of anything (something) is unknown, how solid is the structure built upon it? Witness: current financial and global pandemonium.
Well, we happen to be lucky because this foundation, little by little, is beginning to make itself known. It has not completely announced itself, or been invited to dinner, so to speak, within the physics community as of yet, but when it does, finance and economics will have to be reshaped (re-thought, re-planned, re-executed, re-organized, etc.).
Reshaped is the operative word here. That is, think about it, the shape that takes over most finances is the triangle (not to be confused with, but, then again, it’s the same, the pyramid (scheme)).
Right now, we are convinced more is more than less, which is derived from an erroneous physics notion (mathematics) that two is (always) greater than one.
It matters not the financial (or political) system, capitalism or communism, autocracy or democracy, fascism or socialism. Both (all) are organized using the idea that one and two are different and two is greater than one, and, further, they form a triangle (one is the top, and two, or many, is the bottom). Our entire number system is based on this (at-least-half-the-time-faulty) assumption.
In reality, we can readily notice (observe) that two can also be one. That is, a couple can be observed as two ones or one two. This observation mechanism holds in any discipline, but, is most important, in finance.
What we are really noticing is reality, financial and otherwise, is circular, not triangular (at all). That is, there is a mandatory circle between any two linearly attached any-things, markets and individuals, one important example. This mandatory circle is an obvious clue, and, a most definite key.
Once one gets to two (many, or more) from one (as one), we can all notice (observe) that many, or more, is quickly flipped (tipped, tripped, switched) to less as soon as it happens. It may happen as a prison scenario of some kind, if someone does something illegal to create ‘more.’ Or, it might happen as a bubble. Or, it might just happen naturally.
Pyramid scheme (and resulting bubble) is a natural outburst of the reality we currently imagine (believe in, observe). This flipping, tipping, or changing direction, is not just finance. Its basis is physics (mathematics).
The opposite, over time, overtakes all realities. Within any opposite pair, day and night as a general example, one must turn into the other, and, then, continually, back and forth, yin and yang, in a circular (not triangular) see-saw (sorry).
When we look about us, everything seems smaller, or larger (now it gets confusing), until we make the visual correction using mind. This is where the faulty observation begins.
It feels like we are in a triangle with everything we can observe. That is, we are one, and our observation (observations) is (are) many. We are large (or small) and our observation(s) is (are) the opposite (small and-or large).
Whatever we are, we are opposite our observation(s). It makes no difference if the observation is a person, place or thing. It makes no difference, also, within which discipline we decide to observe (define or articulate our observation).
We must pay attention to a very important piece of mathematics called the diameter of a circle to understand what is really going on.
Once we notice the diameter is an invisible line between any two any-things (every two every-things) we can realize (as reality) there has to be an invisible circle there as well. This invisible circle is in control of the triangle (and, because they are in a circular relationship, vice-versa).
Now you can see there is no control, only circles (triangle must be three circles because the lines in a triangle are all diameters of circles). Any linear shape has a circle (a set of circles) attached. So any yin must be a yang (they are in a mandatory circular, as well as linear, relationship).
Now some of us will not want to make this observation. In fact, some of us will refuse to. We can predict, 25% will make it, 25% will refuse to make it and 50% will be on the fence. Half of these will eventually choose to make the circular observation, bringing the predictable total, over time, to 50%.
50% is a circle. 50% will observe ‘circle.’ Any observation is (must be) a circle (observation is based on, and comes from, the circle).
That is, a circle is a set of diameters which all have two points (to make one diameter). So one in two is 50% and this explains why you have 50-50 (just about) men and women (yin and yang) everywhere.
Now 50-50 gets skewed here and there, all the way down to 25-75, or even 2-98. This we can explain later on (any two numbers is actually 50-50 via circle). For now, just notice circle is 50-50.
For every yin there is a yang, no matter what you do. For every more there must be a less, and vice versa. You cannot have more without less. This is the foundation for finance.
Once we make this important observation, we can use the result to effect a more productive business strategy (individually or institutionally, locally or globally, for one, or many). Actually, we can use it to effect a more productive living strategy (physics, psychology, philosophy included) as well.
This imaginary, invisible, yet always-present circle is reality. It is why we have seasons, weather, and time. It is also why we have space. But now I am getting much too technical for the purposes of this article.
For finance, we just have to observe that the circle is involved in markets, and in market behavior, because there is a mandatory invisible circle between any individual and any market. Therefore, the most basic market, and the most basic individual, is circle.
Now if we understand what a circle is, then we can do a much, much better job of business (and personal or global) planning.
Everyone underestimates how much time it will take to do everything (anything). This is what causes all the problems in business. This is what causes all the problems everywhere. (This is what causes all the opportunities in business and elsewhere, everywhere, anywhere.)
This underestimation (over-estimation) is caused because of the circular relationship between mind and matter.
That is we can think of many more things than we ever can accomplish. However, while in mind, or while thinking, we lose sight of the fact that we cannot accomplish all the things we may think we can. We must run out of time (perhaps this is a universal, natural design).
Also, we are trained (we cannot help ourselves) to think in the future. There is a circular relationship between now and the future. That is, there is no future without now, and no now without future. So we are stuck with the future, whether we like it or not.
But we all know the future never comes. This is something Columbus demonstrated for us physically when he decidedly did not fall off the earth. He went ‘over’ the horizon and disappeared, but he did not fall off earth, and he did not disappear, actually. And, if you want to be very smart (creative), you can notice he came back in (as) a circle.
Now, now that we are becoming more aware of the circle as basis (foundation in physics), we can get a better handle on how to more effectively deal with this pleasant construction (sometimes not that pleasant) called ‘future.’
There is a technical reason why we have a future. It starts by imagining the circle as a vector. For non-technical readers, a vector is two lines joined by one point, signifying two different destinations from the same point.
Go back to the circle and place yourself at any point on the circle and imagine the diameter between you and the other side. Then imagine the circle around this diameter (the circumference around the diameter). If you do this once, you will be able to do it always (one is two and then many).
It’s a very easy observation correction to make. Take two, join into one. Voila, (via) a mandatory line and circle. Here is a particle and wave because the diameter is continually moving (waving).
Now you can notice if one person stays stable and the other moves, you have just created two different circles (which, if you decide to visualize the diameters instead, is a vector). The diameters form a vector, and the half-circumferences, form another diameter of still another circle, and another vector.
This is how we achieve automatic growth (inflation). There is no limit to the number of movements, and no limit to the number of increasing, or decreasing, circles. Even if there is no movement, there is movement (imaginary circles are there even when they are not there).
One cannot predict when or where either person in this imagination will move. Even if either does not move, the imaginary circle between them must have a half-circumference that can always be the diameter of another circle (larger or smaller). So growth, or the potential for growth, can never go away. Neither can its opposite (you cannot have expansion without contraction).
However, one CAN predict the person, one or the other, then both, will most definitely move. The movement creates a circle, and, therefore, because it is in a circular relationship with it, is created by a circle. The circle as foundation (or unification) is mandatory movement (you can’t hold onto your money, it wants to move with its brothers and sisters elsewhere).
So the circle is extremely important. (Everything moves.)
Now the circle tells us we have to plan everything around 25%. That is, if you meet two people one will love you and one will hate you. If you meet four, one will hate you, one will love you and two will be lukewarm. Over time, the lukewarm pair will turn into love and hate, but the lover or hater must also change into its opposite as time goes on.
So you start with 25% and move to 50% but you can never get to 100%.
This translates to 2% and 98% if you overlay three circles (a triangle). Three circles actually come from the thing that is holding the circle together: pi. Pi is three. You are taught it is more than three, so it is either three or four, one or the other, in our universe of two’s, but we are going to use it as three.
Now to go back to the mandatory three circles, we can organize markets and market participants into these three groups (circles): ready, willing and able.
If you have a group of markets, and market participants, at any time 50% will be ready, 50% of those will be willing, and 50% of those will be able. This is how we get to 2% to start off anything, and it means one out of sixty-four anything is a closed deal, as long as the market itself is not over or under-saturated (50% of 50% of 50%).
Markets, then, are under or over-saturated when you have less than 2% or more than 50%. Between 2 and 50 lies opportunity. We can guarantee this is how bubbles are formed (and executed).
Smart business people pay attention to numbers. They know where they are, exactly, between this 2 and 50. Too far underneath 2% and there is no market, even if there are participants. And over 50% the market is ready to bubble, so better exit.
We can also plan using this strategy, to keep savings aside for the time when the market(s) and individual(s) correct (flounder). We can guarantee markets and individuals must flounder 25% of the time, for the reasons above.
We can also guarantee markets and individuals must flourish 25% of the time. But, beware. As mentioned, 25% can go to 2% or 98% before it corrects. This we cannot predict. Markets and individuals have a ‘mind’ (unexpressed circle) of their own.
When they are not flourishing or floundering (never), they are moving in one direction or another. This movement is actually irrelevant because it is based on a circle. Within a circle movement in any direction is the same (it is just movement, doesn’t matter if it goes up or down).
To be clear, if you are going up, you are also going down. It’s a matter of perspective, or observation (because eventually whatever direction you are going you will eventually be forced to reverse).
Now many will read this and understand it. And many will read it and not understand it. We already know the numbers. Eventually 50-50, no matter what we do, or how I write it.
There are an unlimited number of circles everywhere, and these ALWAYS reduce to one circle. Understand the nature of one circle and you will understand nature. In other words, everything’s a circle.
Finance, to be more intelligently productive, must be based on the circle (plan on 25% of everything and you are safe).
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