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Ideas worth spreading, one thread at a time - Building @tradingandata and @_twinkist_
Jan 28, 2022 โ€ข 16 tweets โ€ข 5 min read
10 simple steps to boost your financial health!

You just need a focused day: let's call it the "financial health day".

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Just as you plan your vacations, you should devote a day on your calendar to reorganizing your finances:

a financial day is just as important and lets you get your life in order when you have enough decision-making bandwidth.
Jan 27, 2022 โ€ข 13 tweets โ€ข 4 min read
How to save above 2.000 Jewish children from the Nazis:

a jar and a lot of courage in the recipe of Irena Sendler. ๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡

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First of all, who was Irena:

"Nom de guerre" Jolanta (15 February 1910 โ€“ 12 May 2008), was a Polish humanitarian, social worker, and nurse who served in the Polish Underground Resistance during World War II in German-occupied Warsaw.
[source: Wikipedia]
Jan 27, 2022 โ€ข 8 tweets โ€ข 2 min read
The daily dose of "ideas worth spreading":

my growing library of TED ๐Ÿงต ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡ 1.

Learning whatever your curiosity suggests, with the 20 hours rule ๐Ÿ‘‡

Jan 27, 2022 โ€ข 15 tweets โ€ข 3 min read
"Remarriage is the triumph of hope over experience." (samuel johnson)

The beauty and the risks of one of the most common cognitive biases: the optimism bias.

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Let's start with the definition:

the tendency to overestimate our likelihood of experiencing good events and underestimate bad events likelihood.

It's a cognitive illusion that about 80% of us have: health issues, finance, career are all influenced by our optimistic bias.
Jan 26, 2022 โ€ข 13 tweets โ€ข 3 min read
Everyone think that motivation and problem solving are driven by incentives... but it's not the case!

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The very first prove was an experiment in behavioral science, "the candle problem", created by psychologist Karl Duncker:

.a candle
.a box of thumbtacks
.some matches

The goal: to attach the candle to the wall so the wax doesn't drip onto the table. Image
Jan 24, 2022 โ€ข 17 tweets โ€ข 5 min read
Never heard of positive harms?๐Ÿค”

ok, stay with me: let's deconstruct one of the best concept that you can learn for business, finance, every days life:

-#antifragility-

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Think about it: we have the word fragile, but we miss the exact opposite.

Robust is not enough: the resilient resists shocks but
stays the same.

We want to define something that gain from disorder/errors/shocks: Maestro @nntaleb gave us the term "antifragile".
Jan 23, 2022 โ€ข 13 tweets โ€ข 3 min read
Learning whatever your curiosity suggests: it's doable!

Malcolm Gladwell says something different in his "Outliers: The story of success"... but there was a bug in that book

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The thesis of Gladwell was:

- you need as much as 10.000 hours - booom!

just "Practice a lot, practice well, and you will reach the top of your field"