Have you heard about drownproofing? It’s a training exercise used by Navy SEALS.
Your feet are tied together.
Your hands are tied behind your back.
Then you’re pushed into a swimming pool.
Yikes.
So what happens when you’re tied up and pushed into deep water? The natural reaction is reaction. You thrash around trying to keep your head above water.
Counterintuitively, the way to survive the drowning is not reacting.
You calmly sink to the bottom of the pool,...
What’s the best country to live in?
Ask 10 different people and you get 10 different answers.
It’s like asking, “What’s the best investing strategy?” There’s no right answer. No wrong answer. Just different answers. A function of who you ask.
A stock picker says stock.
A realtor says rental property.
An indexer says an index fund.
A venture capitalist says startups.
A dividend investor says dividend stock.
The American author F. Scott Fitzgerald maybe said it best:...
When you’re young you often take big dumb risks. You just don’t know it at the time. Most times you don’t get hurt.
Hopefully, as you get older, you realize this. That just because you didn’t get hurt doing something dumb doesn’t mean you didn’t take a big risk and get away with it.
When I was 28 years old I flew to Ghana. It’s a small west African country. I traveled the country by bus.
One...
I walked into a tattoo shop down the street to get my first tattoo. It was going to say memento mori. In latin: “Remember you will die.” It’d be a permanent reminder that time is precious.
Nobody working in the shop says anything to me. I sit down and start leafing through those books of ready-made tattoos.
Tattoo machines are buzzing away in the background, laying down lines of permanent ink, and...
Someone with a high-paying job tells me their job is stressful and they want to do something fulfilling.
“I’ve spent the last decade of my life investing in my skills, and finally landed a six-figure job. To my despair, it means nothing. I’m paid the same as my peers who prefer to do as little as possible, while I lose sleep at night wondering how I can do a better job the next day. There...
