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Question Everything
- Growth and change is a necessity in life. Having the ability to question all of your own beliefs and altering them when better ideas are presented to you is one of the keys to progress. This doesn't mean that you cant hold strong opinions about things, it just means that you shouldn't get married to your beliefs and if you do, be ok with cheating on them.
- Great traders change their opinions all the time which is why it is useless asking good traders what positions they are holding because, by the end of the day, they may have just bought a lot of positions in the opposite direction.
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Right vs Wrong Ideas
- Its impossible to know if our ideas are truly correct until they are proven to be incorrect. Especially in the cases where our ideas are based on past experiences and knowledge.
- This is related to the ideas represented by David Hume where “
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How to Actually Generate Better Ideas
- Striving for 'good explanations' is the first step. These are explanations that are hard to vary, where changing the details would ruin the explanation. e.g. "eating sand cures the common cold" is a bad explanation because if it doesn't work then I could just say that you didn't eat enough s...
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"The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught."
RICHARD FEYNMAN
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"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane" -Marcus Aurelius
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- Emphasize trying more than success.
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- Cutting things out is important part of the writing process.
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Jordan Peterson’s 7 Tips For a Better Life
- Signal high status: Smile, keep your head up and shoulders back, make eye contact, be louder, be clear about what you want.
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Handling Your Emotions
Emotions are not good or bad, they are just emotions. One can validate the emotions and accept them. A good way is to write down on a piece of paper what all you feel and then reflect on the same.
Whatever the urge is when we feel angry, depressed, or sad,...
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