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Investing, Life Lessons, Personal Finance, Wealth Building

3 Stock Market Patterns That Make Long-Term Investors Inevitably Rich

August 28, 2023 No Comments

When I was in college, I worked as a mutual funds advisor. This was in 2007, before the financial crisis that took place the next year.

I thought I was an investing genius because almost every client I talked to invested with me. So I thought everything I touched would turn into gold.

One year later, my personal stock portfolio was down 60%.

I learned an important lesson: Everyone’s a genius in a bull market. The two years leading up to the 2008 crash were great for many assets. Everything seemed to be going up.

Freedom, Happiness, Philosophy

Montaigne: Don’t Care About What You Are to Others

August 21, 2023 No Comments

We live in a world where external validation dictates our self-worth. Isn’t that a shame? That’s something the French Renaissance philosopher, Michel de Montaigne, talked about hundreds of years ago.

This isn’t a new problem. After all, social media magnifies our inferior feelings when we see so many rich and perfect people every day.

No matter where you go for your content, whether that’s Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, or Netflix, you’re exposed to the lavish lifestyles of people. Think about it. Why would those platforms feature normal people with normal lives?

No one cares. We care about the out-of-the-ordinary things. That’s always been true.

As a result, we’re too focused and engrossed with the lives of others.

Investing, Wealth Building

Navigating Market Volatility: Strategies for Long-Term Stock Investors

August 14, 2023 No Comments

Navigating Market Volatility for long term stock investors

Stock market volatility has been elevated since late 2021. Being among the stock investors who’ve gone through the market’s ups and downs, I can remember how things started.

It was the day after Thanksgiving. Tech stocks began to dive hard, with many of the stocks I tracked declining double digits in a single day.

From that moment, tech stocks and the broader S&P500 index started to go down. The Nasdaq bottomed about a year later, on December 28, more than 35% off the record high.

Happiness, Life Lessons, Personal Development, Self-Knowledge

The 8 Stages of Life That Make or Break You

August 7, 2023 No Comments

Erik Erikson, the psychoanalyst who coined the term, “identity crisis,”¹ found that humans typically go through eight stages of life.

Born in Germany, in 1902, to Danish parents but raised by a Jewish stepfather, Erikson grew up with a different upbringing from his peers.

In 1927, the psychoanalyst Anna Freud (Sigmund Freud’s youngest daughter) invited Erikson to teach at a private art school in Vienna.

Erikson began his training in psychoanalysis, becoming deeply influenced by Freud’s ideas on how childhood upbringing impacts people’s personality and growth. And he realized the following:

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