fake compliments are horrible , but if you can congratulate your kids for something well done, make a party it's even better.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
“Anything forced is not beautiful.” — Xenophon
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Mark Twain
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie
Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
Maria Montessori
If you find a winner , do nothing, sit
“The results also help to explain why active strategies, which tend to be poorly diversified, most often underperform,” says Bessembinder, who found that the largest returns come from very few stocks overall — just 86 stocks have accounted for $16 trillion in wealth creation, half of the stock market total, over the past 90 years. All of the wealth creation can be attributed to the thousand top-performing stocks, while the remaining 96 percent of stocks collectively matched one-month T-bills.
“It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!”
— Edwin Lefevre
Picking multi-baggers isn't hard
Letting them turn into multi-baggers is
How to lose less if there is inflation?
no money in Bonds & deposits, cash etc... most in stocks (some stocks can do very well), Gold, houses, bitcoins, commodities etc...
what could ruin my way of life fast?
besides lack of health if oil price doubles that would ruin my way of life, not my life of course but I would do much less. Mobility is key for my way of life.
I need to make money when there is inflation because all sort of bad things happen when inflation exists, insecurity, robbery, etc...
Is there a reason to think inflation might come back? YES
How can USA be competitive?
they can't
USD must fall
We have control over the way we react to what happens to us, yes we can control this. Only this. The rest is out of our hands.
Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus
