Why beginner investors are lucky
“Investing is a funny business. It's really easy to be average. Just buy an index fund. It's really hard to be above average.”- Howard...
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hbsingh
- Nov 24
- 2 min
Why are investment decisions important?
'Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.' - Daniel Kahneman Welcome to blog 85, which will be the...
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hbsingh
- Nov 17
- 6 min
Protecting yourself from propaganda
Welcome to today's blog (number 84!). My sources are some of the smartest people I know and have distilled the tactics many people use. I...
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hbsingh
- Nov 10
- 6 min
Digital Propaganda
"When people talk about fake news, a lot of folks are like 'people will figure it out.' The truth is, they don't always figure it out." -...
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hbsingh
- Nov 3
- 6 min
Propaganda 101
“You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.” Robert Heinlein, Revolt in...
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hbsingh
- Oct 27
- 7 min
Learning is testing
“Don’t confuse recognising information with being able to recall it.” - Adam Robinson This is the final installment of the learning...
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hbsingh
- Oct 12
- 4 min
Beware of clever fools
“Cleverness is not wisdom.” - Euripides This short blog (#80!!) is an important one if you are keen to weed out pretenders and avoid...
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hbsingh
- Oct 6
- 8 min
Revision tips 1: Learning is training
“Learn from the mistakes of others … You can't live long enough to make them all yourself!” - Oliver Wendell Holmes Over the last 8 weeks...
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hbsingh
- Sep 29
- 4 min
Neurodiversity - different ways of learning
“You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.” - Marvin Minsky Much of what I have written about is targeted at...
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hbsingh
- Sep 22
- 4 min
What do we really mean by learning?
“If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.”- Howard Gardner Over the last couple of weeks, we have gone...
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hbsingh
- Sep 15
- 6 min
How to remember long term?
“Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.” - Bob Dylan I hope you love this one! I have enjoyed researching it. So far...
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hbsingh
- Sep 8
- 5 min
Making things memorable
“Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.” - Thomas Fuller So far in the series we...
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hbsingh
- Sep 1
- 5 min
How to learn intensely
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically” - Martin Luther King, Jr. In this series, we are...
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hbsingh
- Aug 24
- 4 min
Creating curiosity
“Genuine learning is impossible without curiosity.” – Naval Ravikant For Blog 73, we are tackling a thorny issue around learning....
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hbsingh
- Aug 18
- 5 min
The 5 steps of learning
'I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand ' - Confucius Your brain works like Google - a cue can access memories...
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hbsingh
- Aug 11
- 5 min
Why do we learn?
“A man who asks, is a fool for five minutes. A man who never asks is a fool for life.” - Chinese Proverb I find learning a fascinating...
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hbsingh
- Aug 4
- 2 min
Test your EQ!
“In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels” ― Daniel Goleman Welcome to Blog 70! It is all about EQ and...
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hbsingh
- Jul 13
- 3 min
3 beach books and half time commentary
"In the game of life, nothing is less important than the score at halftime." - Andy Andrews As I sign off for the first half of the year...
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hbsingh
- Jul 7
- 4 min
Analysis Paralysis - how to understand and overcome it
"Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action." - Walter Anderson I’m delighted to write this blog for a long time reader on analysis...
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hbsingh
- Jun 30
- 5 min
Procrastination is fear
“There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act”- Harry S. Truman I have the...
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hbsingh
- Jun 23
- 4 min
6 unexpected decision-making books
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” - Walt Disney Wisdom per page (WPP) is a pretty good...
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hbsingh
- Jun 9
- 4 min
Calming breathing
"To breathe properly is to live properly" - Robin Sharma This short final installment is how decision-makers can access calm through...
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hbsingh
- Jun 1
- 4 min
Meditation - a beginners' guide
“You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes every day — unless you’re too busy. Then you should sit for an hour.” - Zen proverb...
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hbsingh
- May 25
- 4 min
Meditation for decision-makers
“Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.”– Ajahn Brahm I would guess that we think...
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