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    Can money buy happiness? Scientists (finally) say yes.

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    Yes -- because it tells people "you don't have to work for what you want, just wish upon a star and The Universe will give it to you." People LOVE that message so they buy the book. It would be very interesting to see how many people who bought the book GOT the things they said they wanted...
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    This 33 year old "retired early" eating bugs and landfill shopping...

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    Your Bee article is great, MJ! :rofl: But FWIW I hang out occasionally in Early Retirement & Financial Independence Community, a FIRE community full of people who don't look ANYthing like your bug-eating boy. They're more interested in investing and LBYM (living below your means) than most...
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    What are your thoughts on going all in crypto in this Recession?

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    I mostly agree. Crypto is a solution looking for a problem, and in the meantime it's just a gambling platform. Cryptocoins at this point really have no valuable function. They serve no useful purpose except as a gambling vehicle. Some day they might, using the blockchain &etc, but not now...
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    How to fix poor attention to detail and focus?

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    Yup. In practical terms, if you're too short, just focus on being taller and soon you'll be 6'4" like me ..... :smuggy: Danny, glad that works for you. That doesn't mean it works for everybody. I've DONE meditation. I had a meditation teacher / healer compliment me on my ability to clear...
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    What improved your life so much that you wish you did it sooner?

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    What type of meditation? Just clear your mind for 20 minutes, or ...? My ex was into spirituality &etc and I experimented with different types of meditation but never got serious about it. I'm very good at clearing my mind of extraneous thoughts, taming the "monkey mind," but I don't perceive...
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    How to fix poor attention to detail and focus?

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    "I can't be productive until it's almost too late, I need to get to panic mode then I'm hyperproductive," etc -- classic ADHD. I'm pretty successful in that I'm semi-retired, working part-time with lots of time to focus on interesting projects. But that way I never have that deadline pressure...
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    How to fix poor attention to detail and focus?

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    This, a million times. People are different. I'm 6'4". If you're not, it's not because you're "not trying hard enough" or you're "lazy." That's just how you're BUILT, and there's not a lot you can do to change it. And everybody understands that implicitly. But the challenges that ADHD...
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    A Bio-Hacking Discussion: Cold Showers, Nicotine, Cryo, Float Tanks...

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    I wasn't really serious, because you would NOT want to take the doses I took to fight cancer. 700mg is a f***ton of THC. Even with the "alternate" delivery method preventing probably 95% or more of the psychoactive effects, I was still practically a drooling idiot. I wasn't exaggerating when...
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    A Bio-Hacking Discussion: Cold Showers, Nicotine, Cryo, Float Tanks...

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    +++1. I have several MTHFR mutations, but that was only part of my problem. About 5-6 years ago I realized a bunch of problems I had were almost certainly caused by mercury toxicity. By accident I found that **LARGE** doses of methyl B12 tamed the night-terrors and screaming-meemies agitation...
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    Discuss acquisition entrepreneurship as a Fastlane launch point...

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    About 10 years ago I went to some Harv Eker courses. One of the speakers was Keith Cunningham, supposedly Kiyosaki‘s original Rich Dad mentor. He was flogging a course to teach you how to buy a business. Naturally he made it sound like an easy way to riches. I talked to him for a while and...
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    Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio

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    Neither of which is very likely, unfortunately. Too many people make money by lying to gullible idiots. We have more internecine conflict in this country than we've seen since the Civil War. There are enough violent and gun-toting loons that we could easily tip into another internal war...
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    I have $X thousands to invest, what do I do? What book do I read?

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    @Gorm are you asking me? The backtest I referenced is just a website that's useful for testing portfolios of funds or stocks. Follow that link and you can experiment on your own. It's really not very sensitive. The difference between "rebalance once a year" and "rebalance every month" is...
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    How much of a return is no longer considered "Slow"?

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    I've done this. I returned almost 40% to our clients with modest drawdowns. They were starting to throw large sacks of money at us. If I had done in 2002 what I had ALREADY BEEN DOING for the previous 3 years, I'd have cleared $500k - $1M in performance fees -- and "to the moon" from there...
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    I have $X thousands to invest, what do I do? What book do I read?

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    I agree "reading books to turn $10k into $15k in 5 years" is a total waste of time. Because you don't need a book. It's trivial. You just need an 8.5% return. For any money you want to stick in the market, here's the "book:" Split your funds evenly between SPY and TLT. Once a year...
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    Fed Up With Your Country? Where Is Left to Go?

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    FWIW: West Nile is a non-issue. It's true that people died from West Nile, but it was rare, and it's gotten much more rare. The county I live in (northern Colorado) was the epicenter of West Nile when it first came through in 2003. We had the highest case rates of anywhere in the country...
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