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Care about something greater than yourself

(Extracted from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson) Whether you’re listening to Aristotle or the psychologists at Harvard or Jesus Christ or the goddamn Beatles, they all say that happiness comes...

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Immortality is about leaving a legacy

(Extracted from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson) Becker called such efforts our “immortality projects,” projects that allow our conceptual self to live on way past the point of our physical...

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Commitment is choice of focus

(Extracted from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson) But while investing deeply in one person, one place, one job, one activity might deny us the breadth of experience we’d like, pursuing a breadth...

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Unconditional love

(Extracted from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson) It’s not about giving a fuck about everything your partner gives a fuck about; it’s about giving a fuck about your partner regardless of the...

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Our identity is formed by what we reject

(Excerpt from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson) The point is this: we all must give a fuck about something, in order to value something. And to value something, we must reject what is not that...

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It is more likely you screwed up instead of everyone else screwed up

(Extracted from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson) …if it’s down to me being screwed up, or everybody else being screwed up, it is far, far, far more likely that I’m the one who’s...

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Be less wrong

(Excerpt from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson) Most of our beliefs are wrong. Or, to be more exact, all beliefs are wrong—some are just less wrong than others. We shouldn’t seek to find the...

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Ed Thorp on Kelly Criterion

(Excerpt from A Man for All Markets by Ed Thorp) Kelly’s criterion is not limited to two-value payoffs but applies generally to any gambling or investing situation in which the probabilities are known or can be...

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4 ways to beat the market according to Ed Thorp

(Extracted from A Man for All Markets by Ed Thorp) Our portrait of real markets tells us what it takes to beat the market. Any of these can do it: 1. Get good information early. How do you know if your information...

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Stock market is not Gaussian

(Extracted from A Man for All Markets by Ed Thorp) The defect of VaR alone is that it doesn’t fully account for the worst 5 percent of expected cases. But these extreme events are where ruin is to be found. It’s...

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