Damien Soitout
A February 2024 newspaper note maps two short books: one on shorting, one on time. Keep the jobs separate. Open only the volume that matches the question you have.
Two books, two jobs. A newspaper note can point at each one. It cannot merge them.
On 18 February 2024, PresseLib published a piece by Marielle Fourcade, updated on 26 February. The headline, in French, is “Les clés de la réussite de Damien Soitout accessibles à tous.” In plain words: keys he uses, put where other people can reach them. The page is here: the PresseLib article. I am not asking you to adopt the paper as a life. I am asking you to read it as a map of two short books. What the first two quick guides are for is on that map, if you keep the two books apart. A map that gets folded into one promise will send you to the wrong shelf.
The paper says I have just published the first two volumes of Guide Rapide, on Kindle and on paper, already in French, English, and Spanish. Volume one is shorting, selling short, as an investment subject. The paper notes that the topic can leave an ordinary reader puzzled, which is fair. Volume two is success through the way you manage time, and the paper says that one is easier to recognize. That split is the useful part. One book is about a market position most people have only heard as a rumor. The other is about hours everyone already spends. They were published as a pair of introductions. They were not published as one method.
A press page on a site is a file of clippings, not a new clipping. Mine is the press page. The biography is the short public account beside it: biography. Use those when you want the frame the site itself gives. Use the February article when you want what a newspaper chose to print on those two dates. What to take from a success profile, and what to leave, is the older lesson for this kind of reading. Reread old coverage, and add nothing, is the same lesson on an anniversary. You take the map. You do not write a third life in the margin.
I told the paper what the series is for, and I will say it here in English as I meant it. The guides share tools used by people who invest at a high level, tools that were part of how my own work took off. They are not the lessons a school usually gives, and they are still usable by someone who will never see that kind of room. The idea is to simplify the process with a complete introduction, so that a reader who wants to go further has a clean place to start. That is an introduction. It is not a result, and it is not a set of instructions that end in a payment.
Volume one is the shorting guide. In English it is A Quick Guide: Shorting. In French, on this shelf, it is the paperback and the Kindle. In Spanish it is the paperback and the Kindle. The job of that volume is to separate the tool from the myth. You borrow a security, you sell it, you have to buy it back. If the price falls, the gap can work in your favor after costs. If the price rises, the buy-back can keep costing, because nothing in the instrument caps the rise. The book walks through squeezes, through the difference between a short and manipulation, and through the fact that the rules are not the same in every country. The U.S. glossary for the public word is on Investor.gov. Read the glossary for the shape. Read the book for the risks and the misconceptions. Do not read either one as a tip.
What shorting is, and what it is not, is the essay that stays with that volume alone. If you only have ten minutes, that distinction is enough to stop you using the word as a charm. A puzzled reader, which is the reader the paper is talking to, does not need a trading desk. They need to know what the word commits a person to. After that, they can decide the investigation is not for them. That decision is a successful use of an introduction. Most people should make it.
Volume two is the time book. In English it is The Time Mastery Blueprint, the paperback of 8 February 2024, ISBN 9798877044777, on Amazon as Time Mastery. The French Kindle from the same day is Maîtrise du temps. The Spanish is Dominio del tiempo. The job of that volume is to get you off the to-do list and onto a plan that unlocks the next objective. I call that plan a MAP, a Massive Action Plan: objectives in order, tasks under the one that matters, a finish that opens the next gate. The book also gives you the four boxes of the Eisenhower matrix, a twenty-five minute block on a single task, and a chapter on saying no. Those are field tools. They are not a personality.
Time Mastery is a field manual, not another to-do list, is the essay for that book on its own. How to manage your time and strategies for the hours are the drills you can practice whether or not the paperback is in your bag this week. Use the drills as drills. Use the book as the manual. The paper is right that this volume is easier to recognize. Everyone has wasted a day. Fewer people have borrowed a share. Ease of recognition is not a reason to let the time book answer questions that belong to the shorting book, or the reverse.
A reader who treats the pair as one promise usually does it in one of two directions. Either they think a well-organized morning will make a short safe, or they think a clever position will spare them the work of choosing an hour. Neither is true. A short has the risks of a short on a messy Tuesday and on a tidy one. A morning has the same twenty-four hours whether or not you have an opinion about a price. Six areas of a life is a reminder that hours and money are not the whole board. Raise your standards is the personal version of the same refusal to blur. One book, one job. Then stop.
The article does not stop at the books. It describes me as a businessman from the Gers, owner of Groupe CPF, with a presence in the United States, in France, and in Mexico. That is the paper's sentence. It also says that advice given in closed rooms can work for people outside them, which is the reason I gave for writing the guides in ordinary language. Further down, the piece describes portfolios and sets them against a high-risk American model that asks people to put in a lot of money and carry a lot of risk. That paragraph is part of the clipping. This page is the map of the two books. A newspaper can print a description of a project. A reader who wants that description opens the newspaper and leaves it there.
The Committee to Protect Journalists explains, on its about page, the work of defending reporters so that reporting can be published at all. I link it because a clipping is not a vibe. It is a document a reporter put their name on, Marielle Fourcade in this case, on a date you can check. You can disagree with the framing. You can refuse to lift a figure out of it. You should not pretend the page is a rumor you are free to improve. How to use old interviews without inventing a new one is the same rule applied to a stack of clips. This February piece is one clip. It maps two books. It is not a fifth story about a person.
Two volumes exist as I write this in the first days of March 2024. The paper's job was to say what each one is for, to a reader in the southwest of France who might never open a market glossary. Your job, if you are anywhere else, is the same size. Open the volume that matches the question you actually have. If the question is what a short commits you to, volume one. If the question is why a day disappears, volume two. A question about a payment is a question for the clipping itself, read on the paper's page, not a question either guide was written to settle.
Here is a way to use the article that does not waste the afternoon. Read it once for the split: shorting, then time. Write those two words on a page, and under each one write the question you actually have. If one side is blank, you do not need that book this month. If both sides are full, pick the one that is costing you this week, and leave the other closed. Then go to the object, in the language you think in. French, English, or Spanish. Paper or Kindle. The introduction is finished when you can explain the tool without the myth. It is not finished when you feel equipped to skip the rest of the work.
I have watched people merge the two guides into a single sentence about “winning.” The sentence is useless. Winning is not a tool. A borrow you have to return is a tool. An objective that unlocks the next objective is a tool. They sit on one shelf because I wrote them as a series of introductions. The shelf is not a promise that using both will produce a life. What the first two quick guides are for is two jobs, named by the paper, and nameable by you. Keep the names apart. Then do one job.
