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Warning – very egotistical post ahead with nothing new, but stuff you knew already. The other day Rolf Suey dropped a fitting comment to my post “Is having more money important to make you happier? Let’s put it into perspective”…
Is having more money important to make you happier? Let’s put it into perspective
Would knowing that you are among the TOP 1% earners in the world make you happy? How much does one need to earn to be among the TOP 1% of the world? US$ 34,000 or about S$ 45,000 per year.…
Three of the hardest words in the world to say …
I don’t know. The human refusal to say “I don’t know” has huge consequences, for example, not getting good returns from your investments in the stock market, because there is a strong correlation between knowledge and humility. As such, the best investors are…
Greed or need?
A few days back I wrote about “Am I saving enough?” Thank you for all your comments. I am just afraid that those people with their benchmark savings ratios are not really representative of the regular guys. Could it be…
The Backfire Effect
We all have a preferential set of intuitions, feelings, and ideas. Less poetically characterized by the term “bias”. These little quirks in our thinking pose a challenge to our ability to weigh evidence accurately to arrive at truth. Bias is…
Do you do Selfies?
I happened to drop by Orchard Road a few days back. It was a good opportunity for chilling out at a cafe and screening the surroundings for some beautiful …, well, for some beautiful social study opportunities. And there were…
Who is weird?
The other day I met some new people. After exchanging the usual conversational stuff we got to the big question: “What do you do?’ I described in vivid pictures how I have been taking care of my own business, my…
The Well-Travelled Road Bias
Nowadays I am a bit more on the road visiting prospects to share with them those benefits my value-add-products could deliver to their operations. As such I come across this common experience for motorists more frequently: I am driving somewhere…
8 Truths I do like to remind myself of
Busy schedules and weekly routines have a tendency to put my brain on autopilot and I lose sight of the important things in life. Some of life’s essential truths need repeating. So, I’d better write them down: MY SELF-WORTH…
It happened again – Self-enhancing transmission bias
I caught myself again yesterday. I was having coffee with an ex-colleague of mine. Back from the phase in my life when I was doing my ‘corporate duty’. I do like to occasionally check in with my ex-colleagues to see…
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