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It was Thanksgiving week, but it’s time to review the week! 1) Your late 20s is the real coming of age The one thing I realized this week is that your late 20s are much more significant than your adolescence. While you shape habits and lifestyle in your teenage years, you’re making a lot of [...] Why, O my friends, did ye so often puff me up, telling me that I was fortunate? For he that is fallen low did never firmly stand. -Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy Added trivia: Boethius invented the wheel of fortune, as a philosophical theory of history that a turn of the wheel could [...] Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it’s not like this compulsive, need, to be liked. Like my need to be praised. - Michael Scott, The Office It was a rough week and there will be a lot of changes in the future. Let’s review what I learned. 1) An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure If you feel sick or injured, take the time to assess the problem and treat it. It’s usually much easier to treat [...] We are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture, and hypothesis. The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact – of absolute undeniable fact – from the embellishments of theorists and reporters. -Sherlock Holmes, Silver Blaze An excerpt: Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not [...] From the preface: And did those feet in ancient time, Walk upon Englands mountains green: And was the holy Lamb of God, On Englands pleasant pastures seen! And did the Countenance Divine, Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here, Among these dark Satanic Mills? Bring me my Bow of burning [...] We stand equally against government by a plutocracy and government by a mob. There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for [...] Sort of a bad title, but here are the stages, courses, and best textbooks that I find are necessary to advance oneself through the world of finance. Mastery of a stage can be assumed by passing certain standardized tests or through the more obvious path of passing the class in school. Standardized tests have the [...] |
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