Jennifer Baez

With it comes something that often goes overlooked: Do not aim to be coldly rational when making financial decisions. Aim to just be pretty reasonable. Reasonable is more realistic and you have a better chance of sticking with it for the long run, which is what matters most when managing money.

More than 2,000 books are dedicated to how Warren Buffett built his fortune. Many of them are wonderful. But few pay enough attention to the simplest fact: Buffett’s fortune isn’t due to just being a good investor, but being a good investor since he was literally a child.

As I write this Warren Buffett’s net worth is $84.5 billion. Of that, $84.2

“Holistic Psychology harnesses the power of choice because choice enables healing.”

Luck and risk are both the reality that every outcome in life is guided by forces other than individual effort. They are so similar that you can’t believe in one without equally respecting the other. They both happen because the world is too complex to allow 100% of your actions to dictate 100% of your outcomes. They are driven by the same thing:

Once we see the relationship between structure and behavior, we can begin to understand how systems work, what makes them produce poor results, and how to shift them into better behavior patterns

The hardest financial skill is getting the goalpost to stop moving.

But it’s one of the most important. If expectations rise with results there is no logic in striving for more because you’ll feel the same after putting in extra effort.

Modern capitalism is a pro at two things: generating wealth and generating envy. Perhaps they go hand in hand;

Balancing the national economy will require new macro-economic models that combine economic, financial, social and ecological variables. Models such as  LowGrow SFC  (developed by T.J. and P.A.V.),  EUROGREEN  and  MEDEAS  are already being used to project the impacts of degrowth policies, including redistributive taxes, universal public services