That fundamental analyst, stock chart technician, or behavioral analyst will likely lose you money.
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Down With Doom
By then I had begun to notice that this terrible future was not all that bad. In fact every single one of the dooms I had been threatened with had proved either false or exaggerated. The population explosion was slowing down, famine had largely been conquered (except in war-torn tyrannies), India was exporting food, cancer rates were falling not rising (adjusted for age), the Sahel was greening, the climate was warming, oil was abundant, air pollution was falling fast, nuclear disarmament was proceeding apace, forests were thriving, sperm counts had not fallen. And above all, prosperity and freedom were advancing at the expense of poverty and tyranny.
From Matt Ridley: Down with Doom: How the World Keeps Defying the Predictions of Pessimists
Continue readingReason To Avoid A Hospital!
So it may be that going to the hospital slightly increases your odds of surviving if you’ve got a serious problem but increases your odds of dying if you don’t. Such are the vagaries of life.
Quote from SuperFreakonomics
Statistics suggest Hospitals are for serious problems, and a clinic or your doctor’s office might be a better choice for all else! What has been your experience visiting a hospital?
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Where Does Talent Come From?
Ericsson and his colleagues have thus taken to studying expert performers in a wide range of pursuits, including soccer, golf, surgery, piano playing, Scrabble, writing, chess, software design, stock picking and darts. They gather all the data they can, not just performance statistics and biographical details but also the results of their own laboratory experiments with high achievers.
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Knowledge is growing fast. Do you know how to keep up?
Every hour of every day I’m learning more
The more I learn, the less I know about before
The less I know, the more I want to look around
Digging deep for clues on higher ground
From UB40 – Higher ground Lyrics
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