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Mental Social/Emotion

Overcoming Fear

I recently read George Soros’ The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means, a bargain book I got off Big Bad Wolf 2012. Having read the author’s Alchemy of Finance, this 162 page book further refines his idea on reflexivity. While I don’t claim to understand every single thing he talked about, I posted on my goodreads.com account, “Just read all his books anyway.”

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Social/Emotion

Of Greed and Fear

It is said that the two greatest emotions are greed and fear. It moves anything that has a price action in it. Which is exactly why and how the stock market, the property market, the foreign exchange market or any markets move through a cycle of ‘boom and bust’ (just as how the legendary George Soros coined it)

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General/All

The Perfect Utopia

This post ought to beget more questions than answers because I am still thinking about the thinking.

The question at hand is on man’s search for life’s holy grail. So far I am satisfied with the finding that we are driven by one of these three – (a) Freudian’s will to pleasure (b) Nietzsche’s will to power and (c) Frankl’s will to meaning. (click here for the post).