
Lessons from a Losing Ticket at Royal Ascot
The Dialogue: “If you had won, you would have been writing a How-I-Won post. But now, you are just going to pretend it didn’t happen? “What is there to say? That I foolishly lost money after going against my beliefs?” “If you had won, would you have kept quiet? “Yeah. But I lost. So what is there to talk about? “The lessons learnt. You still think there is no learning from there?” And with my toothbrush still in mouth, I briefly stepped out of the bathroom, went into the bin to pick up the papers I had tossed in earlier. If you are probably wondering who I was in a dialogue with? It was my head. Better believe it when writers tell you inspiration hits most while they are stuck in the bathroom. The Main Story: Saturday, June 21 was