Category: Behavior
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Obsession and Memory
“You have bits and pieces that you remember. And especially on homers, I have flashbacks of certain aspects of it, but there’s a lot of ’em I don’t even remember what happened. It’s kind of crazy. It sucks. I wish I remembered.” Corey Seager Deep within a recent article on…
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Lucky duck
Whether you call it fortune or luck or randomness or whatever, an important skill is to recognize that you have no control over many important outcomes in your life. From NCAA brackets to investment returns to career success to your own health, the world is simply too complex and chaotic…
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Discernment
I’m sorry, but you cannot treat all your life’s priorities as equals through time. You will have to set down certain priorities for a bit in order to pick up others. This is normal and healthy. In fact, this is more normal and healthy than attempting to infinitely juggle the…
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Desire beyond acquire
Here’s a financial superpower: Cultivating an ability to interact with desirable things through lenses other than acquisitiveness. Art, homes, cars, clothes, gadgets, services–the world is full of beautiful, useful things! But they don’t all have to be ours in order to enjoy them and appreciate their existence. In our culture,…
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Skill development
Desire and imitation are the most natural things in the world to human beings, but ordering our desires and deciding who to imitate are not innate skills. They have to be developed. And if we do not intentionally develop those skills in communion with those sharing a particular ethic or…
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Skill over tool
Tools are important. The quality and shape of an instrument matters. Many skills are inextricably linked to particular tools. And yet the truth remains that you can lose sight of the skill through a compulsive focus on the tool. In the context of money there is a widely varied set…
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Don’t leave it up to a decision
Be the type of person who gives every month by automating a gift every month. Be the type of person who saves every month by automating contributions every month. Be the type of person who is transparent about money with their spouse by having a monthly chat that’s on the…
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Self care
In It’s A Wonderful Life, what ultimately saves George Bailey from suicide by drowning is another man drowning. Sometimes the only thing that can distract us out of our own self-destructive behavior is the suffering of others, which means empathy and compassion are often the highest forms of “self care.”
Meaningful Returns 