North to Paradise: A Memoir Umar, Ousman When we started out , there were forty - six of us . Only six survived . I always ate as much as I could because I knew it might be days before I’d have another meal . I was a twelve - year - old kid living in a no - man’s - land between the port , the cement factory , and the fishing harbor . “ They’ve found trucks in the desert with eighty bodies around them , ” I overheard as I watched them loading the convoys . The smugglers ’ cruel business consisted of promising to bring people across the Sahara , collecting their fees , and then abandoning them in the middle of nowhere . Murder on a massive scale . Abandoned At one point , we found a drinking well for goats : the water was contaminated with their excrement , but we drank it anyway . Considering the things we ate and drank , I don’t know how we never got sick . The difference in temperature between day and night was brutal : we practically melted during the day , when it was over 120 deg
Enhancing Trader Performance Dan Gable, one of the great competitors in the history of sport. To say that he’s an expert performer is a considerable understatement. As a high school wrestler, he won his state championship three times and was undefeated in 64 consecutive matches. He proceeded to win 117 consecutive matches at Iowa State University and twice won the national championship. He was an Olympic gold medalist, outscoring his opponents 130–1 in his final 21 qualification and Olympic matches. As a wrestling coach for the University of Iowa, his teams went 355–21–5, yielding 45 national champions. In his book "A Season on the Mat," Nolan Zavoral provides a simple assessment of Gable: “Nobody trained harder.” Gable was known to practice so hard that he would literally have to crawl to exit the wrestling room. Often, while crawling, he would find a second wind and continue training. Trading is a performance discipline and trading performance can be cultivated through th