6. Seek professional advice:

Bad investing advice can come from many quarters, such as wealth expos or financial advisors. If anyone promises you any type of return over 12%, 99% of the time, they are probably playing you.

There are great financial advisors out there, but many people who sell investment produ...

• If a professional advisor is too risk-averse, due to being liable for potential loss, the advisee suffers from a lack of good advice.
• If the advisor is too close to the advisee, things get personal and both parties try to compromise on the risky decisions so that the social bond is...

Before we can offer advice, suggest solutions, or effectively interact with another person in any way, we must seek to deeply understand them and their perspective through empathic listening.

To listen empathically requires a fundamental paradigm shift. We typically seek first to be underst...