brief tips and snippets of useful life hacks that can serve you as decision shortcuts
… in other people’s minds. The timescale bias is quite a profound thing with serious implications. Ever noticed that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster than you is a maniac?—George Carlin That is timescale…
1) How to succeed? The education system you just went through has planted some seeds into you. Now it is up to you—and only you—to make them grow. Go the extra mile, and see how good you can be at…
Or maybe we actually do know it and just fail in doing what we know we should do. To know and not to do is really not to know yet. Some timeless advice I’ve heard from the age-experienced over the years:…
The younger you are, the more likely you are to believe that more money is the key to happiness. This is why, in my experience, many confident 20-year-old college boy wants to go into investment banking. And it’s why we…
Everyone wants to be wealthy. The problem I see more often than any other is that the majority of normal investors skip the first step in the process of wealth building completely. People want to know what to invest in…
Now the profound simplicity of what I want to share today will elicit in some people yawning boredom and in others “Aha!” eureka moments. Yet whether you yawn or go Yippee! it all depends on the meanings you construct. And…
Emotions are the main cause and driving force in the stock markets. Last week I shared some thoughts why understanding our mind as a tool that tries to live in an uncertain world is an important challenge. Because the brain…
A few weeks ago and before my long vacation to Europe I published one post about the stuff I read online. I decided to keep this up on irregular intervals. So since a few days I am back in Singapore…
Reading is not too bad an investment of time. In a short period of time I get to absorb what took someone else years to accumulate, understand, distill, and refine. There could be so much to learn from what I…
… is in the dictionary. Have you ever thought for a moment that there really is a shortcut to success without having to put any effort in it? Change your life-style mindset and change your thoughts. Here are some ideas I gathered over time from those “Success…