The Importance of Weak Social Connections in Personal and Professional Life
Have you ever wondered why some people seem to have more opportunities than others? Why some people get more referrals, more job offers, more invitations, more insights, more inspiration, and more happiness? You might think it’s because they have more friends, more contacts, more connections. But that’s not the whole story. There’s a hidden factor…
The Importance of Meaningful Suffering
Lessons from Anne Frank, Victor Frankl, and Aron Ralston Suffering is an inevitable part of the human experience. No one is immune to hardship, but the way we respond to it can make all the difference. Some people allow their suffering to consume them, while others find meaning in their pain and use it as…
Luck And Risk — Nothing In Life Is As Good/Bad As It Seems
Luck and risk are siblings, and they are both the reality that every outcome in life is guided by forces other than individual effort. NYU professor Scott Galloway has a related idea that it is so important to remember when judging success. Both your own and others. Nothing is as good or as bad as…
A Case For The Ability To Unlearn And Rethink
After a bumpy flight, 15 men dropped from the Montana Sky. They weren’t skydivers. They were smokejumpers, elite wildland firefighters parachuting in to extinguish a forest fire started by lightning the day before. The crew leader believed the fire to be a regular 10 o’clock fire, meaning as per the fire department’s policy, all fires…
A Preacher, A Prosecutor, A Politician, & A Scientist
As we think and talk, we slip into the mindset of different professions preachers, politicians and prosecutors. In each of these, we take on different identities. Case I. Imagine you have a friend who is a financial advisor, and he recommends you invest in a high growth fund retirement fund. Now imagine you have another…
Thematic Investing, Eyeing the Future and Capitalizing on the Trends
Thematic investing focuses on investing in the companies that may benefit from future trends. What is Thematic Investing? Thematic investing is a strategy that requires a fundamental understanding of the impact of long-term social, political and economic trends on regions and sectors, which reveal investable opportunities. Thematic investors are often keen to look out for…
Investing Strategies For The Lifetime
Your investment strategy is your game plan to create your perfect portfolio. But you must find the strategy that best suits your situation, your risk tolerance and where you are in life. Twenty-year-old guys will have a different approach to investing than someone in their 60s. We generally spend hours preparing for the workday and…
Pros and Cons of All ETF Portfolio
There are always ups and downs in the market and individual stocks. Having a portion of your investment allocated in ETFs can help ease the volatility in your portfolio. Exchange-Traded Funds blew up in popularity after their mass introduction in the early 2000s. And they continue to grow in popularity and the number of ETF’s.…
How to Invest in The Bear Market
When everything in the economy is falling left, right and centre, how can you invest your money so that it helps you increase your overall portfolio returns in the long term? A market doesn’t become bearish just because the stock market has gone down by a few percentage points, and the stock market has to…
Pump & Dump In Memecoins and Cryptocurrency Market
Inside the World of Pump & Dump schemes and Tellegram’s private group operations. Instead of happening once every few years in traditional financial markets, P&D takes place multiple times a day, and they aren’t restricted to only one nation but are international. In the Crypto space, organisers of P&D groups choose the next meme coin…
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