Why is it important to learn from the Nomad Investment Partnership and Nick Sleep you may ask? The fund generated an absolute return of 921.1% over a 13 year period compared to the MSCI world index return of 116.9%. An annualised return of 20.8% over 6.5% of the MSCI. It’s mind-boggling and unheard of. $1…
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How do we measure progress? A bunch of variables, benchmarked against what is being exhibited by people around the world. We have been trained to do so! Measuring ourselves against the competition that is “Out There” is not just phenotype but is ingrained in our genes. Our world is a relative world. The idea of…
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The last two weeks have been fun, trying to figure out why we move like cars on a highway as if we have destinations to reach, which never seem to arrive. This brings me back to the subject, “What is it all about?” The question is like an onion, layers of which are constituted by questions…
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Finding purpose is hard. A lazy thought process would lead us to believe that there is no big purpose to our existence, so why spend time finding it anyway. Zooming out and thinking about the vastness of the universe, the unfathomable highs, unmeasurable breadths very well makes me realise that, I am but a tiny…
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A topic that has kept me on my toes and my brain on a dose for a long, long time now. I am always scared to write about happiness as it is really tough to ascertain whether I have enough context to put thoughts into words. But like everything else, this needs to be done.…
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The book itself is a short read – 203 pages in total from cover to cover. This is not an attempt to summarise Housel’s writing, however a piece which fetches notes from the book that I found extremely useful and would want to revisit again. Also as Naval Ravikant says 😛 “Don’t give me the…
Read more The Psychology of Money: Themes to Explore
Imagine a Jenga tower, all those blocks being different facets of human characteristics and behaviours. All the things that you surround yourself by/ get surrounded by, pull these pieces out ever so slightly. Over time each of this has pulled you far enough that the box tower doesn’t look the same. Sometimes you cheat and…
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We tend to think all the time. That is exactly how our brain is wired, and that is how it should function. Sometimes, the thinking gets on my nerve as it really isn’t leading me anywhere. What happened is already etched in the time-space reality that I have lived through, what will happen is an…
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