Good reply.
I admire your positivity although you sound exactly like the sort of person I thought you would be. In any case, it is important to remain positive esp through a drawdown. The typical reaction to a drawdown is to stop trading and then your system becomes profitable again and you're on the sidelines watching your system call loads of decent signals. When you jump back in, it's just starting on the drawdowns and you lose more money.
By professional marketeer I meant people who are qualified with the Chartered Institute of Marketing. They didn't "fake it until they made it". They go in as graduate trainees and are trained by the likes of the CIM and their marketing directors how to market their goods/services. You could argue it's a means to an end. I think the means is more important than the ends. That is why I don't run a door hinge manufacturing business, for instance. Of course, I want riches beyond my wildest dreams (well, a slight exaggeration) but I want to profit from doing something I'm interested in... door hinges, for example, isn't one of them.