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Why do I blog so much about the brain, biases and thinking errors in context with money and investing?
I am very glad that more and more of you are stopping by the Tacomob-website and I feel specially encouraged by all your positive E-mails. One of the more frequent questions asked has formed the header to this post and there are dozens of answers to…
ad verecundiam
Have you noticed that we are social creatures who devote a lot of our time to thinking about social ranking? And that a by-product of this obsession is a tendency to blindly trust the claims and ideas of people who rank…
NOW
I realise now that NOW is the only time that exists, although that truth about time took me a while to comprehend. Our life, you see, is about a series of moments in time, but we often live these moments hoping to improve a future moment—to have a better…
Do you want to predict the future?
I beg your pardon? Did you just answer with a Yes? That is great, because that proves that you are human and/or a human being. Did you know that the human being is the only animal that thinks about the future? We—human beings—think about the future…
Book: ‘Mind Power’ by James Borg – Key Statements
Chapter 1: You are What You Think “You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.” — Blaise Pascal We can’t change other people and our…
This-time-is-different-bias or why we don’t learn from our mistakes
Did you know that it is the default settings of our brain that often drive us—despite past experiences—to do things that make no logical sense, though they make perfect emotional sense? That, however, does not make us completely irrational; it…
Attention! Attention to your Attention Span!
Let me ask you: “Do you feel the urge to check your latest Facebook friends’ updates, news-feeds or Instagram photos—on the go? And do you succumb to this urge; thereby coincidentally increasing the probability of eliminating yourself—prematurely—from the gene pool?” The…
Unpredictability Ignorance
It’s not so easy to be active in the stock market. Because when people I meet learn that I make my money predominantly from the abundant stock market, they—more often than not—flood me with questions on my prediction of the future trends and…
Employ your brain to save money, or 10.5 safe ways to safely save you money
1) Next Tuesday: Before a purchase, take the time to consider what you’ll be doing, from morning to night, this coming Tuesday. How will this purchase affect you on Tuesday? This simple exercise—thinking about time used on a specific day (you…
Wanna be a trillionaire?
Sounds great, doesn’t it? And you would be the first on this planet, provided that you measure your wealth in the current USD, since I am quite certain that there would already be existent trillionaires when measured in Vietnamese Dong or Indonesian Rupiah. Trillions are flung around in the news nowadays to…
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