How to win friends and influence people When I went to business school, this was the favorite book and considered one of the must reads. Many of the students would learn it but then use the book in a manipulative manner. Hence, I resisted the temptation to read the book until years later juts to […]
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There seem to be more and more emotionally unstable people than ever. From psychoanalysis, whether that’s insecure attachment styles, less than ideal childhood upbringings, anxiety, mental illness. One thing is sure that the awareness is much higher than before. Typically self-help books are overrated as those discoveries can be uncovered by taking risks and living
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Esther Perel is a world-famous psychotherapist and is considered a relationship expert. So much so that her practice in New York charges $500/hour for sessions with her focus mainly on relationships, therapy. Oprah even listed her as a Supersoul 100 list of visionaries and influential leaders. Here are some of her thoughts on the changing
At least in public domains, John Gottman has been widely mentioned as one of the best to be giving advice on marriage. It’s been said he is able to predict divorce with 94% accuracy based on studying a couple’s behavior. He has founded the Gottman Institute, which is a research-based approach to relationships developed by
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Garry Tan has a YouTube channel through which I have learned a lot of small nuggets of wisdom over the years. He is best known as a venture capitalist and founding Initialized Capital. He is now the CEO of Y Combinator, and had previously co-founded Posterous and Posthaven. His big claim to fame in startup
Imagine quitting your life in the western world and becoming a monk. That’s what Jay Shetty ended up doing, a very rare thing to do in going against the grain. From what I ascertain from Buddhism, some principles are useful that have benefitted me, particularly in this new day and age of a noisy fast
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The author Joel Greenblatt returned an astounding 40% per year compounded during a 20-year period from 1985-2005, the greatest publicly recorded return for a large fund. If I could get even half of that over a 20-year period, that would be golden. Consequently, let’s study one of the books he published, you can be a
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Most of the people who claim to be relationship experts and gurus are some combination of idiots, arrogant, grifters, dunning Kruger effect in thinking reading one book makes them an expert, con artists, snake oil sales, saying random crap in selling the soul to make a quick buck. From everyone I’ve read on all thing’s
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In our wealth obsessed world, we become stingy and selfish and focus solely on the money, losing sight of everything else. And yet, some of those everything else actually greatly affects our finances, notably for men in who they choose to partner up with in life. Divorce takes away >50% of your wealth, so even
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Since 2021, a span of four years now, I’ve looked at startups on republic.com for non-accredited people, aka non rich folks trying to get rich via equity crowdfunding into startups. Personal AI is by far and away the best startup I’ve seen that fits the criteria to hit a unicorn valuation over $1 billion (or
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