If money and happiness were fully correlated, then my happiness should be at an all time high. I have more money than I did last year, more than I had in college, and even more than I did in high school. The graph below is the ideal visualization of how my money should grow with […]
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“Seiko Sharply Lowers Earnings Outlook”, “Tech Stocks Rally, Pushing Nikkei 225 Higher by 1.0%”, and “French Economic Growth Weakens” are typical morning headlines from the Wall Street Journal. We see these replaceable headlines every day on your news outlet of choice. On the same day as those headlines, we also saw the following: “Terrorist Attacks
Ignaz Semmelweis was a Hungarian doctor working at the Vienna General Hospital in the 1840s. There were two maternity wards at his hospital. One that was run by students / doctors and the other by midwives. He noticed a lower infection and death rate for mothers in the ward that was run by midwives. He
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The thought of internal vs external motivation has been top of mind since reading one of Morgan Housel’s latest pieces, Internal vs External Benchmarks. He opens the piece with the following quote, “There are two ways to measure how you’re doing: Against yourself and against others. Internal vs. external benchmarks.” It’s hard not to compare
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Ram Dass has an excellent quote, “The enlightened version of a river is still a river.” We can substitute any object into this quote and it will still work. An enlightened rock is still a rock, an enlightened cloud is still a cloud, and an enlightened human is still a human. So what does he
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