When we are young is it crucial to receive wisdom from wise counsel. Having a mentor around helps a lot too, someone in real life that can provide definitive examples of how to behave and how not to. Many of us though, may not have that luxury. Finding those that are wise and are already […]
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Thinking, fast and slow has long been lauded as a book to improve one’s psychological state and emotional discipline towards becoming a better person, better decision maker, and better investor. Many readers of psychology frequently list it as a top 5 book in psychology to read. Written by Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman, he emphasizes
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Imagine if you were able to set your life up to work only 4 hours per week. Just do some maintenance work to make sure everything is working, and then get on with your life. Is this even possible? Apparently, it is, in the fast-paced information age where exponential leverage can exist if one knows
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Why helping others drives our success, in an increasingly individualized and secluded world. Society pushes us to focus on outward indicators of success, passion, hard work, skill, talent, status. This can lead to toxic cultures where selfish people, takers, profit at the expense of others, the selfless, the givers. By becoming an informed giver, a
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I’m sure if we reviewed every person at the end of their life, we could identify multiple mistakes or missed opportunities, ranging from financial, romantic, personal, professional, etc. Hindsight as they say is 20/20. Looking at some of the biggest successes of Shark Tank companies, Ring ended up being a big winner. Ring was sold
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I found with a lot of the business books written they are very idealistic and aren’t relatable or relevant to the average person to read. Sure, if you belong in the right tail end of the Gaussian bell curve, they are relevant to you. Most of us are not outstanding people and thus the advice
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50 years of wisdom summarized in one mere book by Professor Lawrence Cunningham. Its widespread popularity comes from Buffett’s extraordinary wisdom, and being able to convey it in a manner that is simple for readers to read and understand. One of the wisest to have lived, it would be remiss to not glean some knowledge
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Seneca the Younger was one of many Greek stoics, and wrote his now famous letters towards the end of his life in retirement. Given that the letters have survived since 65 AD, there is much popular fanfare with his thinking and observations on life. They are quite counter intuitive to how life is approached by
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I’ve had the opportunity to meet some rather wealthy people, at least financially speaking. My definition of that is someone who doesn’t have to ever work again, and doesn’t even need to think about money or how they spend it. I’ve always wondered if there was anything unique about these types of people who get
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