Miscellaneous Briefs
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Miscellaneous Briefs
How to Make Friends in High Places
“Shallow men believe in luck… Strong men believe in cause and effect.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life Today, I am going to open a little door into your future. First, answer this question: Who in…
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How to Think “Outside the Box
Much has been made of the importance of thinking "outside the box." To solve difficult problems, it is said, you need the ability to do this. I agree. Completely. Because I've seen supposedly insurmountable…
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Thank God for Your Health
The first wealth is health. Ralph Waldo Emerson I woke up this morning with an urgent sense that I should tell you something that, in a fully awakened state, I realize you already know. But obvious things are…
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The Question of Where
They say the three most important questions you must answer in life are: What am I going to do? Where am I going to live? Who am I going to live with? I think that is pretty close to the truth. If you don’t…
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Why Vegetarians Crave Sweets
If you are a vegetarian, you may have noticed that you crave sweets. Not just sugar in your coffee, but sugary confections like pastries and candy. In The Vegetarian Myth, Lierre Keith, a former vegan…
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So You Want to Be a Leader? Secrets From Attila the Hun
We sat down at a corner table with Number Three Son, ML (his fiancée), and two friends of theirs who looked to be attractive, smart, and good natured. Just the sort of people one would want to liven up a…
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This is weird. Is this a sign of early onset dementia?
Nobody talked about dementia when I was a kid. I didn’t even know what it was until I was in my 40s. And back then it was described as a kind of “brain fog” that affected octogenarians. It wasn’t something I…
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I’ve done better with real estate than with any other category of investing…
And I’ve done it with everything from limited partnerships to buying and flipping properties to rental real estate and land banking. By far the safest and most lucrative has been buying buildings into which I…
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Beauty and the Brain
Numerous studies demonstrate that good looking people have a measurable advantage in life. How do we determine what is “good looking”? According to neurologist Anjan Chatterjee, it’s because of the way our…
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How Often Should You “Hit” Your Customers With Advertising?
It took us nearly 17 years to recognize a fact about marketing that we already knew. I’m talking about frequency: how often you should “hit” your prospects with ads. Instinct tells us it should be not too…
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Questions You’d Be Embarrassed to Ask
I probably shouldn’t be reprinting stuff like this, but since I’m part of the group and since it seems that golfers are nearly universally fond of puerile and/or sentimental and/or downright corny humor (and…
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Making money passively… very passively
Got this message today from my brother Justin: “We just closed on the sale of the ‘Seabird,’ our 12-unit apartment building 99 yards from the wide white-sand beach in Pompano Beach. We bought the property from…
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Sir Anthony Hopkins Surprised Me
Anthony Hopkins is one of the world’s greatest living actors. He’s probably best known for his portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (for which he won an Academy Award), its sequel Hannibal…
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Briefs
“Is sweating healthy?” Never one to be without an answer, I said, “Yes!” And then, “At least I think so.” And then I looked it up. It turns out sweating is useful but it’s not healthy in the sense that it will…
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The Time You Spend on Your Smartphone: Gold, Wood, or Poison?
There are basically three kinds of activities that you can choose to spend your time on: Golden – meaning activities that improve you Wooden – meaning activities that have no apparent effect on you Poisonous –…
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76 Million Baby Boomers Abscond To Fiji After Draining Nation’s Social Security, Medicare Accounts
From the Onion WOODLAWN, MD—Arriving en masse to the Pacific island nation after fleeing under the cover of night, 76 million baby boomers reportedly escaped to Fiji on Friday after completely draining the…
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Sympathetic and Vulnerable in the Windy City
What the hell, I thought. Let’s try a yellow cab. Surely they’ve improved by now…We arrived in Chicago a bit after midnight last night. Having taken an Uber Black from Newport Beach to LAX four hours before, I…
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Culture > Logic
Joseph Schumpeter, an Austrian economist, had a unique view of free market economics. He had an insight that some of his best fellow economists were blind to. He understood that economics is ultimately not…
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