London had 120,000 residents in 1523. A fifth of them – 25,000 people – had fled the city by February 1524. They weren’t running from war or famine. In the summer of 1523 a group of fortune tellers warned that on February 1, 1524, the River Thames would swell so high it’d swallow London whole.…
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Unlike other goals, pursuing happiness rarely leads to attaining happiness (Schooler, Ariely, & Loewenstein, 2003). Instead, seeking happiness more often, ironically, decreases happiness, in turn causing a previous act of seeking happiness to prompt continued behavior devoted toward the same objective (i.e., acts of seeking happiness). How might this happiness-seeking spiral shape one’s experience? We propose that the…
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Given the importance of wealth in this day and age, the decision to take a portion of your hard-earned money and make an investment should not be an easy one. After all, we all know that it can be a risky endeavor, which requires special knowledge and expertise in a highly volatile market. One way…
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Like many traders, I read Market Wizards as a kid. If you don’t know it, it’s a collection of interviews with the most legendary traders of the 1980s.Back when I first read it, I really had no idea what the hell I was doing. I read it, thought I got it and moved on. But I didn’t…
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I have been saving this piece from the Brisbane Times – my lack of alacrity in looking at it and commenting on comes down to simply not know what to say since it operates from a point of view that is totally foreign to my own. In the past week, bitcoin took a dramatic tumble after…
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When I was like four years old, despite my mother warning me not to, I put my finger on a hot stove. The stove was red and bright and shiny and I knew yummy food came from it, so the allure was irresistible. That day I learned an important lesson: really hot things suck. They…
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In my readings I came across the following chart and it got me thinking about the nature of delusion – It is no secret that we lie to ourselves, we have a strangely filtered view of all of our qualities and flaws. My guess is that most of the time these delusions serve to protect…
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During the women’s downhill race on Wednesday, Bode Miller, who has been an NBC color commentator for the alpine ski events at this Olympics, offered some insight on the mental toll of his former profession. “Everyone says that the pitcher’s mound is the loneliest place in sports. I would say the Olympic start gate is…
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Episode Info Here’s a controversial statement: contemplating your mortality will make you happier. Frank Ostaseski is a pioneer in end of life care and holds this to be true. Frank co-founded the Zen Hospice Project, the Metta Institute, and is the author of The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully.…
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