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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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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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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Have you ever thought that your thinking could be better? You are thinking about your thinking, called metacognition. Imagine being able to take some concepts and increase the ability to think clearly and make far better decisions going forward. Shane Parrish, founder of Farnam Street, has outlined exactly how to do that in his book
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After reading Power vs. Force, you will be able to identify whether someone is a positive or negative person, just based on their vibe, disposition, aura, demeanour, mannerisms, behavior. The vibration of others, the consciousness, the primary underlying emotion, can be identified and explain one’s behavior and experience of life. Imagine being able to read
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Sven Carlin is a YouTuber and investor who performs research on the stock market and has made several interesting counterintuitive investment offers. He’s also written a book about investing in the stock market, the details of which I have captured here. I’ve never read a book by a YouTuber before and this was my first
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-Kathryn Staley decided to reverse the way stocks of companies are looked at by looking at the difficult and dangerous endeavor of short selling, or selling shares that you do not own. The idea is to make a profit with the drop of the stock price by borrowing shares that you do not own. Even
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I looked on amazon at how much Margin of Safety costs, and the hardcopy version is selling for $7,453.31 in Canada. I could buy a used car for that money. Naturally, I obtained instead a digital copy at a much lower cost and read it, and have now given the summary notes on his views
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