I met someone for the first time this weekend. We got a long pretty well. So well that at the end of the dinner, we decided to shoot some hoops at a local park (this was beside the fact that it was 10:30PM). We were shooting hoops and talking about various topics when we ended…
A hobby of mine is to see what lessons can be learnt from the lives of others. These can be found everywhere if we have the desire to find them and make the effort to look. For this post, I’ve picked a few stories that have provided a few lessons that I hold quite closely….
Last week Lachlan and I produced a video for “Are you OK day”. This is a subject that is very close to my heart as people who I have known have suffered from the dreadful situation of feeling ‘there is no way out other than suicide’. It breaks my heart every time I hear…
There is more to investing than finding the ‘right’ strategy, making an investment and following a plan. Being aware of how you think, why you react in certain ways and what biases or beliefs you might have will increase your skills as investor. Not controlling the emotions you might experience such as fear, greed, pride,…
In his book “The Art of Thinking Clearly”, Rolf Dobelli talks about the “Sunken Cost Fallacy”. This is where people keep on with a particular path of action for no other reason than the amount of time or money that they had already sunk into the path of action. People do this as they feel…
A man walks into shop wearing one shoe. The shop owner asks, ‘Lose one?’ Man answers, ‘No mate – found one!’ From one simple scene it is amazing the difference between the 2 men’s points of view. First there is the shop owner’s view:- ‘Lose one?’ The shop owners looks upon the world and sees…