What The Spartan Race Says About Success
For those who are unfamiliar with the Spartan Race click here.
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Email Of the Week
Traditionally email of the week is a catalogue of the idiocy of people attempting to make some headway in trading and this week was no exception with two excellent contenders. Early in the week we had some one who was trying to convince us that she was a conservative long term investor and she sought…
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Money Giveth, Money Taketh Away.
This study has been siting in my inbox for quite sometime and I finally got around to reading it – the abstract below gives a very good summary of the findings. This study provides the first evidence that money impairs people’s ability to savor everyday positive emotions and experiences. In a sample of working adults,…
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Subconscious Bias
One of the difficulties of living in a world that is flooded with narratives is that they have an insidious way of seeping into your subconscious. This infiltration is unknown until you need to make a decision. The chart below is of QAN and upon cursory inspection it shows a relentless bearishness surrounding the stock…
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Where Are The Economists Yachts?
For your edification I bring you two articles. Firstly, a series of predictions made by Saxo Bank economists. Secondly, and more sensibly a piece that rightly asks – where are the economists yachts? Once you have read the first article you will automatically know the answer to the question posed in the second article.
In Praise of Melancholy and How It Enriches Our Capacity for Creativity
“One feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep dark well, utterly helpless,” Van Gogh wrote in one of his manyletters expounding his mental anguish. And yet the very melancholy that afflicted him was also the impetus for the creative restlessness that sparked his legendary art. In his diary,…
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How Do You Improve When You’re Already The Best?
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And you may ask yourself ….. Well … How did I get here?
And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack And you may find yourself in another part of the world And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself Well…How did I get here? Once In A LifeTime…
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