In-Spire
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In-Spire
But look beneath the technique and what did you find? A sameness, a mental weariness, a mediocrity of ideas. But they could defend every ad on the basis that it obeyed the rules of advertising. It was like worshiping a ritual instead of the God.
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Like worshipping a ritual instead of the god.
What man needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. What he needs is not a homeostatic equilibrium, but rather the will to meaning, guiding him toward a future that is yet to be made his own.
- Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (via Max McCoy on youtube)
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After chatting with a fellow commuter, people were in a much better mood. But when asked to predict what it would be like to talk to someone on their train ride, people expected that it would be better to sit in silence rather than talk.
Gillian Sandstrom • Why you should talk to strangers | BPS
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Variance Equals Strength
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Try new things, do things differently. Experiment.
I never lost faith in the end of the story, I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of my life, which, in retrospect, I would not trade.” He was then asked, Who didn’t make it out of Vietnam? “Oh, that’s easy,” Stockdale said. “The optimists. Oh, they we... See more
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Faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of circumstance. Don’t hang your hopes on individual events.
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great newsletter with really cool websites
When Mr. Soros was actively managing his fund, he would suffer from backaches, and said that he “used the onset of acute pain as a signal that there was something wrong in my portfolio.”
David Gelles • ‘Trust Your Gut’ Might Actually Be Profitable Advice on Wall Street, Study Says (Published 2016)
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traders who follower their intuition and “are in tune with their heartbeat” make more money
“By this they mean that subtle physiological changes in their bodies provide cues helping them rapidly select from a range of possible trades the one that just ‘feels right.’ Our findings suggest that the gut feelings informing this decision are more than the mythical entities of financial lore — they are real physiological signals, valuable ones a... See more
David Gelles • ‘Trust Your Gut’ Might Actually Be Profitable Advice on Wall Street, Study Says (Published 2016)
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pounce on intuition and “the right feeling” when you can.
The Talks – No Idea is Final
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