I’m a sucker for a great quote. One of my all-time favorite quotes is from Viktor Frankl who was a Holocaust survivor. In his book, Man’s Search for Meaning, he writes, “Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.” […]
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How can someone make millions of people unique with the same ? Larry David, the co-creator of Seinfeld, and the star of Curb Your Enthusiasm has a very unique ability. He can relate to people in ways they aren’t expecting. He is able to comment on thoughts on feelings that people have subconsciously, but never
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Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin highlights four Presidents during some of the most crucial times in American history. She documents the lives of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, and LBJ. She is able to give ample background on their lives before their Presidency and she sheds light on the respective challenges for each.
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Part of the reason why I started this blog was to become a more effective communicator. We’ve all been told the importance of communicating through writing and speech. These are two skills I’m trying to actively improve. Over the past 6 months, I’ve come across three helpful tips to improve my writing. Brevity. There was
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The power of compounding is the #1 lesson I want to teach in personal finance. I believe it has the largest impact and the power of compounding affects all areas of life, not just investments. A few quick questions to start: Questions When did Apple become a publicly-traded company? What has been the total return
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I’m a simple man. If I see a Morgan Housel blog post, I click it. His most recent post, “Play Your Own Game”, got me to ask the question – what is my investment game? The genesis of his post was due to someone asking him how his investment views changed over the last decade.
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It’s amazing the lengths people will go to in order to get their money back. The most egregious version of this involves a US hedge fund, the Ghanian government, and an Argentine naval vessel. How could these three entities across the globe be linked together? Someone wanted to get their money back and it took
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I try to be cognizant of the things that make me happy. My best days are the ones that I smile the most, so I want to have as many of those as possible. It put a smile on my face to put together all of the things that I love, so this was time
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Ram Dass is a spiritual teacher and former psychologist who I stumbled across a couple of years ago. He passed away at the end of 2019, but many of his lectures dating back to the 1970s have been posted online. I wanted to reflect on one of his lectures – “Ram Dass Here and Now:
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Van Neistat, the older brother of popular YouTube star, Casey Neistat, launched a YouTube back in March. Coming from a guy that used to religiously watch the daily vlogs by Casey Neistat, I only knew Van as Casey’s older brother that did a TV show with Casey on HBO and that he lived in California.
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