Scott Adams has this really memorable term for how to think about people: moist robots. Moist because — well, we’re wet and squishy. Robots because there are certain predictable behaviors that we repeat. In situations like A, most people do f(A). In situation; in situations like B, most people will do f(B). Sounds very robot-like…
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Passion1 is one of those interesting human phenomena where we too often confuse cause for effect. The usual story about passion goes something like this: You have a passion. Either you have had it all your life (presumably since you were in the womb), or perhaps you had a life changing experience where you all…
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Most people my age I talk to don’t have much of a clue about how to deal with personal finances. We come out of school with almost no money then suddenly have all this cash (on a relative basis) and don’t know what to do about it. All the while, the education system never thought…
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Preface: I wrote a post a while back titled: Lucky or Smart? Along those same lines, I pose another question: Luck or Passion? (hint: luck wins every time.) A very common piece of advice that keeps coming up, over and over again, is “follow your passion”1. While this advice is always well intentioned, and perhaps…